Equinix, Inc.

Brian James Lillie

Jaganathan Jeyapaul

Parveen Kumar

Vijaay Doraiswamy

Venkatachalam Rangasamy

Gagan Maheshwari

Purvish Purohit

Mohan Navaratna

Prabhakar Gundugola

Ramchandra Jayateerth Koty

Nathan Joseph Janken

Ashwin Kamath

Lance Weaver

Senthil Kumar Balakrishnan

Harshith Bhaskar Vakkaligara

Sriharsha Mukundappa Sathyavathi

Tsunyen Weng

Muhammad Durrani

Danjue Li

Imam Sheikh

Ankur Sharma

Pragnesh Shashikant Panchal

Anand Ozarkar

Swayambhu Raparti

Juxiang Teng

Divesh Kumar

Shital Dhariya

Christopher Alan Anderson

Jay Shankar Pathak

Srinivasa Rao Yedluri

In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.

Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange

This disclosure describes techniques for delivering high-accuracy and high-precision clock synchronization in heterogeneous distributed computer clusters. For example, the disclosure describes a synchronization engine that sets efficient clock synchronization processes based on a cluster node's characteristics, pricing, precision, geolocation, and/or cluster topology, while in some cases using a combination of master clock data with internal atomic clocks of computers. The techniques described herein integrate the synchronization engine into a time synchronization process that may provide stability, versatility, precision and cost balance using technical improvements for characterizing timing system delivery channels.

Timing synchronization service and distribution system

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; storing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform; monitoring, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center to obtain an event that describes one of the event subjects; and publishing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the event to the topic.

Near real-time messaging service for data center infrastructure monitoring data

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for coordinating, with a cloud exchange, automated cloud-based disaster recovery across containers from a failed cloud service to a backup cloud service. In some examples, an orchestration engine for a cloud exchange is configured to: detect an indication of a disruption in a first cloud service provided by a first cloud service provider network coupled to the cloud exchange to send and receive data packets via the cloud exchange; provision, in response to detecting the indication of the disruption in the first cloud service, disaster recovery infrastructure layers in containers of a second cloud service provided by a second cloud service provider network coupled to the cloud exchange; obtain code and state from containers of the first cloud service; and communicate the code and state to the disaster recovery infrastructure layers in the containers of the second cloud service.

Container-based cloud exchange disaster recovery

In some examples, a customer churn risk engine is configured to query at least one of co-location data indicating co-location facility usage by a particular co-location facility customer and telemetry data indicating interconnections established between the particular co-location facility customer and at least one additional co-location facility customer within at least one co-location facility operated by a co-location facility provider. The customer churn risk engine is further configured to generate, based at least in part on at least one of the co-location data and the telemetry data, a churn risk score for the particular co-location facility customer. The customer churn risk engine is configured to output the churn risk score for the particular co-location facility customer.

Customer churn risk engine for a co-location facility

In some examples, a method includes obtaining, by a data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) agent executing on a computing device deployed by a data center provider within a first data center of a plurality of geographically-distributed data centers, an infrastructure asset data object comprising infrastructure asset data for a physical infrastructure asset of a second data center of the plurality of geographically-distributed data centers; translating, by the DCIM agent using an asset mapping table, the infrastructure asset data object to formatted infrastructure asset data, wherein the asset mapping table maps one or more properties of infrastructure asset data objects to management protocol objects or control protocol objects for one of a management protocol or control protocol; and sending, by the DCIM agent to customer equipment co-located within the first data center, the formatted infrastructure asset data in a communication that conforms to one of the management protocol or control protocol.

Data center agent for data center infrastructure monitoring data access and translation

This disclosure describes techniques for securely, efficiently, and/or effectively providing cryptographic operations and key management services. Systems in accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure may provide secure management of cryptographic keys as service to a plurality of data center users or customers that contract for services provided by a data center. In one example, this disclosure describes a data center comprising a plurality of cloud service provider ports, a plurality of customer ports, network infrastructure coupling the plurality of cloud service provider ports to the plurality of customer ports, and a computing system including at least one hardware security module.

Data center security services

Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exhange

A method includes receiving, by an asset privacy system, an input video feed that includes images of one or more assets located within a data center, identifying, by the asset privacy system, one or more corresponding assets for the images of the one or more assets, determining, by the asset privacy system, an asset of the one or more assets a customer is not authorized to view, and generating, from the input video feed, by the asset privacy system based at least on the determining, an output video feed that does not include images of the asset the customer is not authorized to view and that does include images of at least one other asset of the one or more assets.

Data center viewing system

In one example, a cloud exchange comprises an interconnection platform of a network data center to configure a plurality of interconnection assets of the network data center to interconnect customer networks of a plurality of customer networks co-located in the network data center, the interconnection platform comprising: a network event unit controller configured to receive an indication of a network event of an interconnection asset of the plurality of interconnection assets; generate, in response to the network device report message, one or more network event messages based on the network event, wherein each of the network event messages includes an indication of the network event; and send the one or more network event messages to one or more customer systems for respective customer networks of the plurality of customer networks, wherein the one or more customer systems are affected by the network event.

Event-driven notification and network service bus for a cloud exchange

In some examples, a method includes querying, by a magnetic score engine executing at a computing device, first telemetry data indicating one or more interconnections established between a first co-location facility customer and at least one additional co-location facility customer within at least one co-location facility operated by a co-location facility provider. The method further includes generating, by the magnetic score engine and based at least in part on the first telemetry data, a magnetic score for the first co-location facility customer, the magnetic score indicating an importance of the first co-location facility customer to the least one additional co-location facility customer being co-located at the at least one co-location facility. The method further includes outputting, by the magnetic score engine and for display at a display device, the magnetic score for the first co-location facility customer.

Magnetic score engine for a co-location facility

Techniques for hot swapping and hot scaling containers between cloud services are disclosed. In one example, a method includes storing, with a cloud exchange, data indicating an association of a first container of a first private network with a second container of a second private network, wherein the first private network and the second private network are coupled to the cloud exchange to send and receive data packets via the cloud exchange. The method further includes sending, with the cloud exchange based on the association, state of the first container to the second container.

Hot swapping and hot scaling containers

In one example, described herein is an interconnection platform for dynamically configuring and managing a cloud-based services exchange, or 'cloud exchange,' to facilitate virtual interconnections ('virtual circuits') for cloud services delivery from cloud service providers to one or more cloud customers. As described herein, the interconnection platform facilitates event-driven notification to push virtual circuit configuration status updates to customer systems of customers of the cloud exchange provider that interface with the interconnection platform.

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Brian James Lillie