Case Study: Equinix achieves real-time, high-performance network visibility and scale with DataStax Enterprise

Equinix delivers high performance to millions of business apps, optimizes customer experience with Datastax

Equinix, a leading interconnection and colocation provider with more than 100 data centers, needed to aggregate massive volumes of real‑time, time‑series network data for monitoring, troubleshooting and billing. Relational databases could not keep up with the scale, write‑intensive workloads and low‑latency requirements, limiting visibility into network health and causing performance and storage bottlenecks.

Equinix replaced its RDBMS with DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra) with Hadoop integration, gaining linear scale, continuous availability, and superior write/read performance along with OpsCenter management and 24x7 support. The new platform ingests about 90 million records daily, enables real‑time monitoring, improves customer insights and operational planning (including power and capacity), and delivered a clear TCO and performance advantage.

Equinix

Praveen Kumar

Sr. Manager of Emerging Technologies & Platform