Case Study: Axfood achieves scalable, flexible hybrid cloud for dynamic retail with Equinix ECX Fabric

Axfood Optimizes Hybrid Cloud for Dynamic Retail

Axfood, Sweden’s second‑largest food retailer with over 1,100 stores and 14,500 employees, needed to protect its core operations while accelerating digital innovation. Facing pressure from new market entrants and planning for future eCommerce growth, the IT team set a goal to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure that combined on‑premises certainty for core functions with the scale and flexibility of cloud services for new projects.

Building on a colocation partnership with Equinix, Axfood adopted Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric to create a software‑defined, on‑demand interconnection between its infrastructure and multiple cloud providers via a single port. The solution gave faster cloud integration, reduced vendor lock‑in, improved flexibility and scalability for new ventures, and increased reliability (average uptime 99.9999%), enabling IT to focus on orchestrating services and supporting digital growth.

Axfood

Pär-Olof Skåntorp

Head of IT Operations