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Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started o...

July 13, 2018

Global Switch: Frankfurt South

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

July 11, 2018

Equinix Dublin DB1

Equinix Partners with Omantel to Open a Data Center in Oman

Colocation giant Equinix has partnered with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build its first data center in Oman. At full capacity, the facility near capital Muscat will offer 18,600 square feet of white space – enough for approximately 750 IT cabinets. The first phase of the project ...

July 09, 2018

Equinix Oman

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an add...

July 09, 2018

Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandw...

July 02, 2018

EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will...

June 30, 2018

Facebook Clonee Ireland

PAIX and NSIA Technologies make a West African Joint Venture

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies have formed a joint venture to run carrier neutral data centers in two African countries. The pair will develop and operate two data centers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal under the PAIX brand.The joint venture will acquire NSIA Technologie...

May 30, 2018

PAIX Abidjan

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

May 23, 2018

Facebook Luleå

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

March 21, 2018

NTT Frankfurt 4

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “W...

November 30, 2017

Google Aabenraa (Prospective)

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, t...

October 05, 2017

Iron Mountain Singapore SIN-1

Zenium Announces London Two (PR)

Stockley Park data center acquiredLondon, UK – 22 March 2017: Zenium has announced that it has completed the purchase of Infinity’s Stockley Park data center. The assets, employees and customers of the data centre have also transferred to Zenium as part of the agreed transaction. This will b...

March 17, 2017

Infinity Data Centers

Interxion Buys Amsterdam Data Center from Dutch Service Provider Vancis

AMSTERDAM 27 February 2017 – Interxion Holding NV (NYSE: INXN), (“Interxion”), a leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, announced today that it has acquired a data centre business from Vancis Holding BV, a leading independent Dutch provider of colo...

February 28, 2017

Digital Realty: AMS9

Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business

ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters. Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017. REDW...

February 28, 2017

Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4

SUPERNAP launches in Italy

MILANO, Italy, Dec. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SUPERNAP International today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center in Southern Europe. With 500 cabinets and more than 3.3 megawatts of power already sold, SUPERNAP International is delivering on the promise of bringing st...

December 16, 2016

STACK Milan Campus

UPS Outage at Global Switch's London GS2 site

The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took at least one customer two days to fully recover. The 222 millisecond outage was caused by a fa...

September 21, 2016

Global Switch: London East

MEEZA Unveils Middle East’s First LEED Platinum and Tier III Certified Data Centre

DOHA, Qatar--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEEZA, the leading IT services and solutions provider in Qatar, announced that its latest and biggest data centre to date, M-VAULT 2, with a total building area of 10,000 m2 is now fully operational and offering access to MEEZA’s full portfolio of services. Built ...

November 13, 2014

Meeza M-Vault 2

New data center for DATEV

Cologne/Nuremberg, April 29 2011. QSC AG, a provider of voice and data communication as well as the ICT services that build upon them, is making data center resources on more than 1,000 square meters of floor space available to Nuremberg-based DATEV eG. The project was implemented by IP Partne...

April 28, 2011

DATEV: Am Tower 5

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