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Global Switch Picks Banks for $1 Billion IPO in Hong Kong

HONG KONG (Reuters) - UK-based data center operator Global Switch has chosen CLSA, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as sponsors for its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of up to $1 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. Founded in 1998 and owned by Britain’s ...

March 01, 2019

Global Switch

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in t...

October 02, 2018

London

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

Asian investor consortium acquires 24.99% stake in Global Switch in preparation for listing on a leading international stock exchange

A consortium of six Asian institutional and private investors has acquired a 24.99% stake in the Company in a transaction valued at £2.1 billion The investment by Strategic IDC Limited further diversifies Global Switch’s sources of equity capital, supports a continuation of the Company’s strat...

July 11, 2018

Global Switch

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

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