Equinix cuts most former Switch and Data sales staff

from DatacenterDynamics:

>>Colocation service provider Equinix has let go most former members of the sales and sales engineering staff of Switch and Data, following completion of its acquisition of the latter company earlier this year, a former Switch and Data employee who wished to remain anonymous told DatacenterDynamics.

About 25 members of former Switch and Data employees have been let go so far, most of them about five weeks following closure of the $683.4m acquisition in the early days of May 2010. Equinix has also cut Switch and Data’s “agent program” – a way for providers of other related services to re-sell data center space in the company’s facilities.

An Equinix spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.