GoGrid Hosted Private Cloud Now Available through Platform Equinix

San Francisco, Calif., - May 24, 2011 - GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced the availability of GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud service in the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers. GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud solution enables Equinix customers to deploy the capabilities of scalable compute power, virtual server images, load-balanced infrastructure, private networking and elastic storage in a completely dedicated and secure environment - all with no hardware procurement or resource sharing.

An enterprise-grade solution, GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud service is built for service providers, financial institutions and businesses that require a private cloud environment. GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud service delivers on the true value of cloud computing by converting capital expenditures to operating expenses, ensuring that infrastructure components can be deployed in a self-service, pay-as-you-go model, and ultimately providing scalable programmatic Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Most importantly, GoGrid's solution is a hosted and managed environment running on dedicated hardware for each enterprise which means companies do not have costly and time-consuming hardware environments to set up and maintain.

"The demand for Hosted Private Clouds continue to increase as enterprises recognize the Cloud's ability to help them provision elastic computing resources, easily scale physical and virtual environments as well as other complex networking topologies that cannot be duplicated with traditional IT infrastructure," said Jeffrey Samuels, chief marketing officer, GoGrid. "With state-of-the art data centers, global footprint and broad business ecosystems, Equinix provides a powerful platform for deploying cloud solutions. The availability of GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud will enable our mutual customers to take full advantage of a hosted private cloud environment all within an Equinix data center environment of their choice."

Through Platform Equinix, a global delivery platform of 95 network neutral data centers in 37 key markets, GoGrid can now directly connect to a large marketplace of enterprise customers and strategic partners. Customers are now able to better focus on delivering services to their customers while GoGrid maintains a seamless high quality customer experience by reducing application latency, enhancing network reliability, and scaling infrastructure as needed. Customers can leverage GoGrid's easy-to-use interface to self-manage their cloud computing resources on-demand and in complete alignment with their business requirements.

"Our customers utilize leading infrastructure technologies and looking to leverage unique solutions using public and private clouds," said Vince DiMemmo, general manager, Global Cloud and IT Services, at Equinix. "GoGrid's Hosted Private Cloud service delivers on the true value of cloud computing and provides businesses with a dedicated cloud infrastructure option in a self-service, pay-as-you-go cloud model."

GoGrid and Equinix will host an educational webinar on May 25, 2011 at 11:00 AM PDT addressing current industry trends and how companies are using hosted private clouds to adapt to expedite go-to-market strategies and to seize market opportunities. Register http://go.gogrid.com/equinix

About GoGrid

GoGrid is the #1 pure-play Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider specializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing applications and workloads on our proven, secure and reliable public cloud platform. With GoGrid's Public Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control; with GoGrid's Private Cloud customers utilize a private, hosted and managed server, single-tenant environment with zero capital expenditure. To further leverage the GoGrid cloud, the Partner Exchange provides users with an evolving ecosystem of cloud solutions from GoGrid's partner community. GoGrid is proud to have been recognized as a "Visionary" two years in a row by Gartner and as a "Champion" by Info-Tech Research Group in 2011. For more information, please visit: www.GoGrid.com.