Case Study: Fortune 500 Multi-National Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Company achieves global scalability, secure multi-cloud access and 300% ROI with Equinix

Fortune 500 Multi-National Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Company - Customer Case Study

A Fortune 500 manufacturer of construction and mining equipment turned to Equinix to support aggressive global initiatives — expanding aftermarket and services, improving collaboration, and growing market share in Asia — while facing fluctuating markets and intense competition. The company needed a trusted data center partner with broad geographic coverage to relocate its disaster recovery center, enable strategic global initiatives and provide private access to cloud service providers.

Equinix deployed a Platform Equinix architecture — including Performance Hub, Data Hub and Equinix Cloud Exchange — giving the manufacturer secure, high-performance global interconnection. This enabled massive backup and disaster recovery capabilities, secure global application testing and private cloud access, accelerated entry into China and a foundation for IoT and analytics. Measured results from a Forrester TEI analysis include a 300% ROI, $17.3M NPV, 4.2‑month payback and a 42% reduction in average latency.