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Equinix is Exiting Eight Leased Data Centers In The US

Equinix has announced that it would not be renewing the leases for eight of its data centers in the US. The data centers are situated in New York, Georgia, and some in California and Atlanta. Equinix commented that the reason for the development is that some of the facilities don’t meet the fu...

May 10, 2021

Equinix

eStruxture raises $600 Million CDN

eStruxture just announced that it had secured over $600 million CDN in incremental equity from major financial institutions. eStruxture will use part of the sum secured to fund the acquisition of all Aptum’s Canadian data center business which was recently finalized. The funds will also help e...

May 05, 2021

eStruxture

Equinix prices $2.6 billion "Green" Bond Sale

Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental im...

May 04, 2021

Equinix

eStruxture will acquire Aptum's Canadian Colocation Business

eStruxture has announced that it will acquire Aptum's Canadian colocation business. With the addition of the new facilities (five in Toronto, two in Montreal and one in Vancouver), eStruxture will operate a total of 14 facilities across Canada, increasing its total footprint to over 600,000 s...

March 30, 2021

eStruxture

eStruxture Data Centers Names Al Shulman As New Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

MONTREAL – eStruxture, the largest Canadian-owned provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces today the addition of Al Shulman as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and energy industries, Shulm...

March 16, 2021

eStruxture

Equinix Completes US$780 Million Acquisition of 13 Bell Data Centers in Canada

Equinix has completed it's acquisition of 13 Bell Canada's data centers. The acquisition was first announced in June 2020. Bell had operated the facilities under the Q9 brand. It partially acquired Q9 in 2012 for $1.1 billion and in 2016 it acquired the remainder for $675 million. This deal ...

October 01, 2020

Equinix

Equinix Prices Offering Of $2.6 Billion Senior Notes (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. ("Equinix") (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $2.6 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $500,000,000 of 1.250% Senior No...

June 08, 2020

Equinix

Equinix Completes US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers in Mexico

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of three data centers from Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of Mexic...

January 09, 2020

Equinix

eStruxture wins new customer, VEERUM, at Its Calgary Data Center

eStruxture Data Centers has announced that it has won a new customer in its Calgary facility. The Calgary-based SaaS provider VEERUM is moving into eStruxture's facility in Calgary, Alberta. eStructure acquired the facility from Shaw in August. VEERUM specializes in asset visualization and man...

November 06, 2019

eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

Equinix to Expand into Mexico With US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) to acquire three data centers that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas o...

October 04, 2019

Equinix

eStruxture receives $145 million in fresh funding from CDPQ and Fengate

eStruxture now has fresh funding to continue its expansion. The company has already announced the acquisition of the Shaw data center in Calgary. Let's see what's next. Links: CDPQ Press Release Yahoo Finance Article Infrastructure Investor article

August 05, 2019

eStruxture

eStruxture Acquires Calgary Data Center from Shaw Communications (PR)

eStruxture is expanding again and continues the trend of carrier colo sold to carrier-neutral operators. eStruxture claims this is the largest data center in calgary, but the jury is out. Rogers has a building in Airdrie just North of Calgary that is 85,000 sqft. eStuxture will also share the ...

August 01, 2019

eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

Equinix Appoints Jon Lin as President, Americas

Congrats to Jon Lin who was promoted by Equinix to President of the Americas. Jon will oversee existing operations in North and South America. Equinix Press Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it...

June 17, 2019

Equinix

Eugene Henegouwen is Appointed as President of EMEA for Equimix

Equinix has appointed Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as the new President of EMEA. Eugene has been at Equinix since 2013. Since that that time, he has held the role of SVP of Sales in the EMEA region, overseeing the tripling of revenue in the region over the last 6 years. Before joining Equinix, He...

April 15, 2019

Equinix

Laura Ortman (CRO) and Dawn Smith (COO) join Cologix

Cologix, a network and cloud-neutral interconnection and data-center company, today announced it has added two new executives to its leadership team as the company prepares to rapidly expand its data center colocation and interconnection services. Laura Ortman joins Cologix as President and Ch...

November 12, 2018

Cologix

IX Reach expands partnership with eStruxture

IX Reach has partnered with pan-Canadian data centre solutions firm eStruxture to offer connectivity solutions across the North America market. The two firms are strengthening an existing partnership by offering customers access to major IXPS through a single port, including access to optimise...

November 05, 2018

eStruxture

Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought

Equinix is in the sweet spot to capture a bigger share of the wholesale data center market, which are generally deployments larger than 1 megawatt. Equinix's Interconnection ecosystems are a strong magnet, even for larger compute deployments. The mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new whole...

July 09, 2018

Equinix

Equinix Completes Acquisition of 29 Data Centers from Verizon [Press Release]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ). The U.S. $3.6 billi...

May 01, 2017

Verizon Enterprise

Rogers Communications Acquires BLACKIRON Data from Primus Telecommunications Group (PR)

TORONTO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Rogers Communications announced today that it has purchased BLACKIRON Data from Primus Telecommunications Group for cash consideration of $200 million, subject to certain adjustments. BLACKIRON Data, a pure-play provider of data centre and cloud computing...

April 17, 2013

Rogers Communications

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