RapidScale Scales AI with Hybrid Cloud | Equinix Case Study customer story
Turn scattered data into a foundation for AI
Most enterprises exploring AI face the same starting problem, knowing they need a solution without knowing where to begin. Often the real issue sits underneath that question entirely, with data spread across seven, eight, even 20 different platforms, databases and data lakes, with no structure connecting any of it. Before AI can deliver value, that data needs a home it can actually be used from.
RapidScale and Equinix give enterprises the flexibility to run workloads wherever they belong, whether that is public cloud or a hosted private environment, with low-latency connections to any major hyperscaler across both domestic and international footprints. Because RapidScale does not need to maintain data centers, invest in cooling infrastructure or manage compliance at the facility level itself, it can focus entirely on customer outcomes rather than infrastructure operations.
Customers are demanding more hybrid infrastructure, and RapidScale and Equinix, we are able to provide them with low latency ramps to any of the hyperscalers and really provide them the best of both worlds.
Duane Barnes President, RapidScale
Run AI workloads wherever they belong
AI adoption often stalls before it starts. Customers want to innovate but do not have a handle on where their data lives, and without structure across their platforms, that data cannot take advantage of modern machine learning or AI tools. At the same time, straightforward lift-and-shift migrations to public cloud have a track record of failing when workloads are not suited to that environment.
AI adoption is following a familiar pattern, starting in the public cloud before customers increasingly demand to run it privately, in a hosted environment they control, with the compliance and security rigor their business requires. RapidScale, working with Equinix, gives customers that hybrid option, with low-latency access to hyperscalers alongside hosted infrastructure, so workloads can sit wherever they belong rather than being forced into a single environment.
The partnership with Equinix gives RapidScale a competitive advantage. We do not have to worry about maintaining the data centers... that is what allows RapidScale to focus on what we do best, which is take care of our customer needs.
Duane Barnes President, RapidScale
Focus on customers, not infrastructure
With Equinix managing the data centers, cooling and facility-level compliance, RapidScale can put its full attention on helping customers modernize applications and scale AI. Enterprises get a hybrid approach that places each workload in the right environment, public cloud or hosted private, with low-latency access to major hyperscalers across domestic and international locations. The result is a clearer path from scattered data to AI that delivers real business value.
