Data Center News

Cook County property records show EdgeConnex is expanding to Chicago

Cook County property records show EdgeConnex is expanding to Chicago. A young data-center company is cooking up its first deal in the Chicago area, paying nearly $23 million for an Elk Grove Village warehouse that it plans to retrofit for the internet era. EdgeConnex acquired the 132,000-squar...

Data Foundry to expand Austin Campus by 325,000sqft

Switch: Texas 1

Data Foundry is expanding their massive Austin campus. Ready in Q3 2017. Data Foundry, a leading provider of premium colocation, network and managed services, today announced the construction of its third Austin data center, Texas 2. The first phase of construction will begin this quarter, and ...

UPS Outage at Global Switch's London GS2 site

Global Switch: London East

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 fault in...

EdgeConnex landed Comcast as an Anchor tenant

EdgeConneX Jacksonville

It is always good to have the incumbent MSO (in this case, Comcast) anchoring your Interconnection datacenter. With Comcast, the area’s largest cable and broadband provider, as their anchor tenant, they have plans to triple the size of the center as they bring more customers into their facility....

Expedient expanding Pittsburgh datacenter

Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side)

Expedient announced an expansion of their Pittsburgh datacenter. Details below. ...expansion project at one of its Pittsburgh, PA data centers, located at Nova Place, formerly known as Allegheny Center Mall. The facility is one of two enterprise data centers the company operates in the region. ...

Phoenix-IX extends to EdgeConneX Phoenix

EdgeConneX Phoenix

EdgeConneX has announced it has partnered with Phoenix Internet Exchange (Phoenix-IX), having built the newly available remote Phoenix-IX node into its Phoenix Edge Data Center (EDC). Located at 3011 S 52nd Street, Suite 107 in Tempe, Arizona, the expansion is instrumental to the advancement of t...

Monet subsea Cable to land in MI3

Equinix Miami MI3

Equinix has been selected by Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide US facilities and services for the cable landing station architecture to support the Monet subsea cable system between Miami and São Paulo. Monet, which is a planned subsea cable presently designed to deliver over 60Tbps o...

Videotron acquires 4Degrees Colocation in 2015

4Degrees Colocation

Québec City’s largest data centre - Videotron acquires 4Degrees Colocation Videotron Press Release Montréal, March 11, 2015 — Videotron is pleased to announce that it has acquired 4Degrees Colocation and its data centre, the largest in Québec City. The amount of the transaction is $31.5 million, ...

Zayo is continuing to build Fiber in existing markets

Zayo

It is good to see Zayo's commitment to continue invest and buildout fiber. Dave Jones, EVP of dark fiber services for Zayo, told FierceTelecom that while the service provider will look for opportunities to grow its fiber network into new markets, enhancing existing builds allows it to gain new c...

Cologix Building New Datacenter in Columbus

Cologix Columbus COL1, COL2

Cologix Building $130M Data Center in Growing Columbus Metro Data center provider Cologix has kicked off construction of a $130 million data center in Columbus, Ohio, which will be the third facility on the company’s campus in the Midwestern business hub. The company expects to launch the first p...

Green House Data Builds A National Footprint

Lunavi

Wyoming might seem an unusual place to launch a national data center network. Yet it’s been a gateway to larger ambitions for Green House Data, a data center and cloud services specialist that has gradually expanded beyond its initial facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company now operates a netw...

ColocationGuard Expands Data Center Footprint Into Northern New Jersey

DataVerge 111 Town Square Place

Sept 7, 2016 ColoGuard Enterprise Solutions, LLC, (ColocationGuard) has announced the acquisition of 10,000 sq ft of data center space in Jersey City at 111 Town Square Place (111 TSP). This latest step in the company’s expansion increases its total data center footprint to more than 60,000 sq ft...

CoreSite Attains HIPPA Compliance for 16 data centers

CoreSite

Buiness Wire Press Release Link CoreSite Realty Corporation Successfully Attains HIPAA Compliance Validation DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today a...

QTS Acquires DuPont Fabros’ 38-Acre New Jersey Data Center Campus

QTS Piscataway

Overland Park, Kan. (June 6, 2016) – QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), an international provider of data center, managed hosting and cloud services, has purchased a 360,000 square foot data center from DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. in Piscataway, New Jersey. The facility becomes QTS’ third New J...

EATEL Business/Venyu Changes Name (PR)

VENYU

BATON ROUGE, LA – March 2, 2016 – The business segment of EATELCORP, LLC—formerly named EATEL Business/Venyu Solutions—announces that is now officially doing business as EATEL Business. This change will apply to its full brand of business products and services. The renaming is one part of an o...

H5 Data Centers Acquires NextFort's Phoenix Data Center - Adding Up to 180,000 Square Feet of Data Center Capacity (PR)

H5 Phoenix

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, announced it has acquired the NextFort data center in Chandler, Arizona. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road, NextFort adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of more than one million square feet in eight U...

Rogers acquires Internetworking Atlantic (PR)

Rogers Halifax HAL DC1

HALIFAX, Dec. 1, 2015 /CNW/ – Rogers Communications announced today that it has acquired Internetworking Atlantic Inc. (IAI) to provide enhanced technology solutions and services for businesses and public sector clients in Atlantic Canada. The acquisition of IAI enables Rogers to offer greater...

Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

Ohio

There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an ...

H5 Data Centers acquires Ashburn Data Center shell

H5 Ashburn

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired a wholesale data center at 21800 Beaumeade Drive in Ashburn, Virginia. The Ashburn data center totals 70,000 SF, is expandable to more than 100,000 SF, and features at least...

Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services

Ark: Youngstown

Involta has agreed to acquire a Youngstown-based data center company called Data Recovery Services LLC. The deal will roughly double the size of Involta’s employee base. The combined company will have nearly 200 employees, according to a news release from Involta, an Iowa-based company that a...