Orange Business Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Equinix to join its Equinix Cloud Exchange.

Orange Business Services plans to offer its Business VPN Galerie – its managed cloud-ready network – to businesses in selected International Business Exchanges (IBX) data centers across North America, Europe and APAC via Equinix’s Cloud Exchange.

Currently VPN Galerie provides more than 700 multinational customers with over 15,000 sites with access to a wide range of cloud vendors and application providers for infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

The Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution that enables seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple clouds and multiple networks inside Equinix IBX data centers.

By bringing together cloud service providers with enterprises and enabling them to establish private, high-performance connections, the Equinix Cloud Exchange gives cloud users direct access to the services they need to build sophisticated hybrid cloud solutions.

Equinix said businesses can join the Cloud Exchange in 13 global markets including – Silicon Valley, Washington DC, New York, Toronto, Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris.

Equinix said it plans to expand its Cloud Exchange to 19 markets by the end of 2014.