Data Center News

Beeks Expands to Equinix NY5 facility

Equinix: NY5

Beeks announced on its website that it is growing its portfolio of datacentre locations by deploying in the Equinix NY5 New York datacentre. In addition to this, Beeks has extended its current rackspace in Equinix LD4 by taking a third cage in the London datacentre. With presence in 11 to...

CoreSite Lands a Hyperscale Pre-lease at SV8

In April, CoreSite pre-leased approximately 108,000 net rentable square feet, or about two-thirds of its SV8 data center that is under construction, including phases 1 and 2. CoreSite expects to complete construction on phases I and 2 late in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, respectively...

DXC Acquires New Jersey Data Centre Signing Colocation Deal With Credit Suisse (PR)

Credit Suisse: Clifton

TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, has expanded its presence in data center co-location services by signing a long-term 13-plus year managed co-location services agreement with Credit Suisse (USA), Inc. Con...

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

Verne: FL-HEL-DC01

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

Zayo Announces Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Digital Colony and EQT (PR)

Zayo

BOULDER, Colo.-- Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (“Zayo” or “the Company”) (NYSE: ZAYO), which provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners (“Digit...

Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 yea...

Bytegrid is Acquired by Lincoln Rackhouse

Lincoln Property Company

Lincoln Rackhouse has announced that has acquired Bytegrid. With the acquisition, Rackhouse adds 3 facilities and a total of 320,000 square feet and 16 megawatts of power to its portfolio.  Resources and Links Rackhouse Press Release (full text below) DCF Article DCD Article  Rackhouse Pr...

Sungard Emerges from Bankruptcy in Record Time

Sungard Availability Services

According to Bloomberg, Sungard Availability set a record for the fastest bankruptcy. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday May 1st, 2019 and emerged 20 hours later with an approved reorganization plan which reduces its debt and allows Sungard to continue to operate its busi...

Amazon deploys Direct Connect Service at Equinix's HK1 Facility

Equinix Hong Kong HK1

Amazon has deployed its Direct Connect service to Equinix's HK1 facility.  HK1 is the second best connected building in Hong Kong, after iAdvantage's MEGA-i building.  Resources: Amazon's Announcement Equinix Press Release (below) HONG KONG – May 6, 2019 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the g...

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor.  Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019  – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solution...

CyrusOne Reports Q1 2019 Earnings: Revenue is $225M up 14% YoY

CyrusOne

CyrusOne Inc. (CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced first quarter 2019 earnings. First Quarter Highlights 1Q’19 Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 14% Leased 16 megawatts (“MW”) and 93,000 colocation square feet (“CSF”) in the first quarter, totaling $27 million in ann...

DigiPlex Issues Largest-Ever Data Centre Bond in the Nordic High Yield Market of NOK 1.80 Billion (USD c.210 Million) to Gear up for Rapid Growth (PR)

DigiPlex Norway AS

OSLO, Norway, April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for innovative, sustainable and secure data centres, has successfully issued a NOK 1.80 billion senior secured bond to gear up for continued rapid growth. This bond will be one of the largest single issues in NOK to ever ...

Apple is Reducing Spend on AWS

Apple

AppleInsider reports that Apple's spending on Amazon Web Services is declining. This makes sense, as Apple continues to build their own data centers, their reliance on 3rd party cloud services will decline. That said, Apple needs to work out a better "edge" CDN solution to deliver their conte...

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Rackspace

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions...

Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix AM11

Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam.   The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Am...

Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

Aligned

DALLAS, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aligned Energy (the "Company"), a leading data center provider, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners ("MIP"), which will support the Company's growth with significant additional capital. Aligned Ene...

Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

Evocative Redondo LAX14

Internap (INAP) has announced that Taboola has expanded in their flagship data center in Redondo Beach (South of Los Angeles.) Taboola is known for its "Recommended For You" articles that appear at the bottom of news articles. The articles are actually advertisements that are made to appear as...

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

NTT: Berlin 2A

e-shelter announced today that it acquired land for its 2nd Berlin facility. This one will be big. When fully complete it will be 60,000 sqM (645,000 SqFt) and 90 MVA (72 Megawatts.) The site will sit on the South side of Berlin in an area called Marienpark, which is approximately 14 km fr...

AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)

AngoNAP Fortaleza

Angola Cables announced the opening of its carrier neutral AngoNAP data center in Fortaleza, Brasil earlier today. The Tier III designed data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere.  The facility  is a primary interconnection point for ...