Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Equinix representatives will speak at the Gartner Catalyst Conference taking place August 15 - 18, 2016 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. At the event, Charles Meyers, chief operating officer, Tony Bishop, vice president of vertical marketing, and Bryson Hopkins, director of solutions architects, will host the following sessions:

Learn How General Electric, Aon and TIAA are Architecting Their Digital Platform with IOATM- Tuesday, August 16^th at 3:05 PM in Seaport Ballroom F

The digital economy is changing the nature of business, forcing IT to transform. Charles Meyers will host a distinguished panel of innovative IT leaders who are re-architecting for the digital edge with an Interconnection Oriented Architecture. As they accelerate their journey to digital, learn how they are solving challenges and realizing benefits in speed, scale, security, and reduced risk.

Panel Host:  Charles Meyers, chief operating officer, Equinix
Robert Hintze, senior director, institutional retirement technology, TIAA
Daniel Headrick, executive director, enterprise architecture, General Electric Company
Munu Gandhi, vice president, infrastructure services, Aon.

Architect Your Digital Platform with the IOA Playbook & Knowledgebase- Monday, August 15^th at 10:25 AM in Seaport Ballroom F

Equinix will discuss the Interconnection Oriented Architecture framework with a step-by-step playbook on how to redefine the edge and architect a digital platform.  Topics include topology, security, data and application integration, with early access to an open knowledge base of blueprints and design patterns. 

Speaker: Tony Bishop, vice president of vertical marketing, Equinix

Virtualized Interconnection Demo: Dynamically Connect to Multiple Clouds via APIs or Portal- Tuesday, August 16^th at 1:00 PM in theTechZone Theater/Harbor Ballroom, Second Level

Equinix will demonstrate the simplicity, performance and cost efficiency of cloud interconnection on Platform EquinixTM.  Bryson Hopkins will show attendees how to dynamically connect new cloud instances, transfer workloads between clouds, and see multi-cloud workloads in action - in a live environment with Amazon, Azure, Google and Oracle.

Speaker: Bryson Hopkins, director of solutions architects, Equinix

Additionally, Equinix will demonstrate on the show floor a beta version of the soon to be released IOA Knowledge Base.  IOA Knowledge Base is an online community with reference tools designed to help enterprises as they seek industry best practices to architect the digital edge. Available through a community platform, IOA Knowledge Base provides an open reference framework that is derived from studying 600 discrete deployments of businesses implementing digital edge strategies. 

To see a demo of IOA Knowledge Base visit the Equinix booth #201 on the show floor.