Case Study: Hathaway Dinwiddie achieves single-digit latency and 99.999% uptime with Equinix

Building a strong foundation for future growth

Hathaway Dinwiddie, a century-old California construction firm behind landmarks like the Transamerica Pyramid and Salesforce Tower, needed to relocate its systems and mission‑critical applications to a more resilient business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) environment while improving cloud-based collaboration. The company’s goals were clear: secure a colocation/interconnection platform to ensure reliable DR and reduce the high latency of its previous IPsec VPN connection to Microsoft Azure and Office 365, which was slowing VDI, file sharing and collaboration.

By deploying an Interconnection Oriented Architecture on Platform Equinix with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and Equinix Fabric, Hathaway Dinwiddie gained private, high-performance cloud connections that cut latency to single-digit (under 2 ms) and delivered 99.999% uptime. The move produced faster VDI and collaboration, near‑real‑time recovery, lower hybrid/multicloud costs, seamless 3D modeling workflows and a scalable foundation for future cloud services like VoIP.

Hathaway Dinwiddie

Jason Warmby

Director of Information Technology