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One of the great things about working at Equinix is the enormous variety of backgrounds -educationally, professionally and personally - that we discover in our colleagues. But sometimes we also find that we have things in common, including, among the authors, a childhood hobby for LEGO® bricks. And we're not alone in that fascination. For thousands of years, humans have used the brick as a fundamental building block for their civilizations, such as the ancient Egyptians who used bricks to great effect in developing wonders as the Great Pyramids.

Today Equinix is applying that same principle of modularity to build composable, brick-based data centers. We are using fundamental brick concepts to construct the physical structure of our data centers - inside and out - to support globally deployable, highly efficient compute and storage infrastructure for Equinix Metal™, and to service the growing global reach that our colocation customers demand. We are using the scale and investment capability of Equinix to create both proprietary technologies, as well as furthering open source, community-driven technologies via our leadership role in the Open19 Foundation. Part of the Linux Foundation[ii], Open19 fosters a community around open rack level hardware standards (the smallest atomic unit of which is a server brick) that bolts-into standard 19″ racks and provides a cable-free installation and maintenance experience and substantive sustainability advantages.

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