Data Center News

Lightower Fiber Networks to Merge with Fibertech Networks (PR)

Crown Castle

Boxborough, Massachusetts and Rochester, New York — Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading provider of custom, high-capacity network services that ensure optimal application and business performance, and Fibertech Networks, a leading provider of fiber-optic based network services throughout mid-...

Amazon secures land in Dublin and Hilliard for new data centers

AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services has tied up two of the three sites for its planned data center network in Central Ohio. Public records show Amazon Web Services' Vadata Inc. affiliate bought 58.2 acres at Hayden Run Road between Britton Parkway and Interstate 270 in Hilliard from Trueman LP for $8.3 millio...

Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

Ohio

Amazon’s planned data center project in Dublin, Ohio, is a step closer, with a panel of city officials approving development plans for a data-processing center on a 70-acre plot of land. The next step will be building permits. The project is expected to cost $1.1 billion and create 120 jobs w...

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

Meeza M-Vault 2

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 ...

Brazil’s Tivit Acquires Chile’s IT Integrator Synapsis

TIVIT

Tivit has agreed to acquire Chile’s technology integrator Synapsis for US$150 million in a deal that will make the Brazilian firm a dominant player in Latin America’s information technology market. Santiago-based Synapsis employs about 1,500 people and has half a dozen data centers across the ...

TierPoint Acquires Philadelphia Technology Park (PR)

TierPoint Philadelphia

ST. LOUIS--TierPoint, LLC, today announced it has expanded its national data center footprint with the acquisition of Philadelphia-based Philadelphia Technology Park, LLC (PTP). The 25,700 sq. ft. data center is located within the Philadelphia Navy Yard and is an SSAE 16 Type II audited facili...

Search Results Web results Data center company Ficolo receives significant Investment from Finda Oy

Ficolo Oy

Finland’s first data center company to focus on colocation services, Ficolo Oy, received  1 million euro capital investment. The investor is Finda Oy, a company that specializes in the development and ownership of ICT companies. Ficolo’s ownership structure remains unchanged, consisting of the...

EATEL Acquires Baton Rouge-Based Venyu (PR)

VENYU

BATON ROUGE, La., /PRNewswire/ -- EATEL, a leading regional telecommunications service provider, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Venyu Solutions Inc., a national provider of data center, managed hosting, cloud, virtualization, and data protection solutio...

IBM opens 4th Data Center in Hortolândia

Kyndryl: Hortolândia

IBM Brazil opens its 4th Data Center at Hortolândia's service center. The expansion increases by 30% the company's capacity to provide outsourcing services in the country and is a result of part of the investment of R $ 40 million (US $ 17.4 million) made last year. The new Data Center has 800...

PT DCI and Equinix Announce Opening of New Data Center in Indonesia (PR)

Equinix Jakarta JK1

JAKARTA, Indonesia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PT Data Center Infrastructure Indonesia (PT DCI), in partnership with Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the opening of its data center facility located at Cibitung, West Java. Built and operat...

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

Rogers Communications

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...

IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Columbus, Ohio (PR)

Kyndryl: Columbus

COLUMBUS, OHIO - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will establish a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio, dedicated to advancing research, development, client services and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The move aims to create 500 new analytics...

Wells Building in Milwaukee sold

1547: Wells Building

Madison-based Ascendant Holdings LLC bought the 15-story Wells Building in downtown Milwaukee from Zilber Property Group and is planning to begin renovation work on the building in the coming months. The Wells building is on the northwest corner of East Wisconsin Avenue and North Milwaukee Str...

Involta partners with Essentia Health at former Duluth hardware store

Ark: Duluth 421 N 6th

The Central Hillside building that long housed Daugherty Hardware will be a data center for Essentia Health Systems by the end of the year if plans announced today come to fruition. Originally published in the Duluth News Tribune The Central Hillside building that long housed Daugherty Hardwar...

New data center for DATEV

DATEV: Am Tower 5

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...

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Seattle Data Center

H5 Seattle

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers (H5), a national owner and operator of wholesale data centers, announced today that it has acquired 1000 Denny Way, a Seattle data center and headquarters of The Seattle Times. Located in downtown Seattle near South Lake Union, the 285,000 square-foot data center ...

Russo Plans Large North Jersey Data Center for Global Financial Company

Credit Suisse: Clifton

Russo Development plans to build a 284,342 square foot data center in Clifton, NJ and local reports indicate a major global financial company will be the tenant.Northern New Jersey has been an active data center market, driven by demand the financial sector. It looks the area will soon have ye...

Singtel and A-Reit to develop Kim Chuan data centre in Singapore (PR)

Nxera: Kim Chuan 2

Singapore, 4 May 2009 -- Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) today announced it entered into an agreement with Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) under which A-Reit will develop to Singtel’s specification a state-of-the art green data centre. As part of this agreement, ...

Nationwide Data Center Planned for Ohio

STACK New Albany NAL01

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is making plans to build a $96 million data center in New Albany, Ohio, according to local media reports. The insurance company is planning a data center facility of at least 120,000 square feet on 45 acres recently designated as New Albany's Research and Inform...

AP&T Announces Majority Ownership in SNI

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has announced it will own a majority interest in SEALink Networks (SNI) which is currently developing a cable landing station in Westport, Washington to “serve multiple customers with significant capacity needs" once operational. AP&T CEO Bil...