Alternatives to Equinix
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If you're comparing Equinix with other companies in Hybrid & Multicloud and Cloud Infrastructure, start here. These are the 32 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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Hybrid & Multicloud: Equinix's main category
19 companies sit alongside Equinix here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#8 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
- Google Cloud#7 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
- Red Hat#2 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible…
- 64 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 published review
- Cisco#11 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
- Dell Technologies#6 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…
- 48 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#1 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#3 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
- Lenovo#13 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- SUSE#19 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- Flexera#18 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Canonical#20 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- HashiCorp#15 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Nutanix#5 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
- Broadcom#4 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- IBM#9 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
- Kyndryl#17 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI…
Evidence is still building for Kyndryl.
- NetApp#12 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…
Evidence is still building for NetApp.
- Oracle#10 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Equinix
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
Also in Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure
13 companies sit alongside Equinix here, busiest first. 6 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Cloudflare#12 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- CoreWeave#14 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- Akamai#10 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- DigitalOcean#9 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011 by brothers Ben and Moisey Uretsky with Jeff Carr, Alec Hartman and Mitch Wainer. It offers simple…
- 21 stories in the last 90 days
- Vultr#13 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers cloud compute, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs for…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- OVHcloud#11 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
OVHcloud is a French cloud provider offering bare-metal dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud based on VMware and other hypervisors, web hosting, domains and managed…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Fastly#20 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Fastly is an American edge cloud platform company founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a programmable content delivery network, edge…
- 29 stories in the last 90 days
- Lambda#18 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Scaleway#19 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Scaleway is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris and owned by the Iliad Group. It offers public cloud infrastructure including virtual instances, bare-metal servers, GPU…
- 4 stories in the last 90 days
- Alibaba Cloud#6 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It provides public cloud…
Evidence is still building for Alibaba Cloud.
- Hetzner#17 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Hetzner is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider offering dedicated servers, Hetzner Cloud virtual servers, storage, colocation and web hosting at relatively low…
Evidence is still building for Hetzner.
- Huawei#7 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…
Evidence is still building for Huawei.
- Tencent Cloud#8 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Equinix
Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing business of Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen. It provides infrastructure and platform services…
Evidence is still building for Tencent Cloud.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Equinix. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Equinix's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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