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Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Google

Iron Mountain Completes Agreement to Expand footprint to India with JV with Web Werks

Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on Febr...

April 21, 2021

Iron Mountain

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co...

April 15, 2020

Google

TierPoint Raises $320 Million from Consortium of Investors (PR)

ST. LOUIS – TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, announced it has reached an agreement that will result in new, preferred equity investments totaling $320 million, which the company expects to be closed and funded by m...

March 24, 2020

TierPoint

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

October 07, 2019

Kansas City

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Acquires Netrality

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has acquired Netrality Data Centers in partnership with the US data centre owner’s management team. Macquarie Infrastructure Partners IV (MIP IV), a fund managed by MIRA said it has bought Netrality from funds managed by Abrams Capital Management...

September 04, 2019

Netrality Properties

Contegix Appoints Joe Deney as Chief Operations Officer (PR)

RESTON, Va.- Contegix, the leading Managed Service Provider for digital applications, has announced that it has named Joe Deney as its new chief operations officer. Deney is responsible for driving increased customer satisfaction and is charged with evolving the company’s support organization,...

August 21, 2019

Contegix

Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

Google has tentative plans for a $600 million data center in the Northland. The initiative's code name is "Project Shale." The project was announced at a Port Authority's (Port KC) board meeting on July 22nd, where the board approved a resolution authorizing Port KC to issue bonds for the...

July 23, 2019

Google: Kansas City

Rackhouse Sells Bytegrid's Hosting and Managed Assets to Agile Data Sites

Lincoln Rackhouse is selling service related line of business that it acquired when it bought Bytegrid two months ago. Rackhouse is selling the colocation, hosting, and managed services products that Bytegrid formerly managed. Rackhouse will maintain the data centers and will focus on its miss...

July 23, 2019

Lincoln Property Company

Contegix Appoints Elizabeth Clor as Chief Marketing Officer (PR)

Reston, VA - Contegix, the leading Managed Service Provider for digital applications, has announced that it has named tech marketing expert Elizabeth Clor as its new chief marketing officer. Clor, who joined Contegix on May 22, brings two decades of experience in growing B2B technology co...

June 27, 2019

Contegix

Bytegrid is Acquired by Lincoln Rackhouse

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...

May 07, 2019

Lincoln Property Company

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

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...

April 25, 2019

Rackspace

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data ce...

March 06, 2019

Meta

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

Equinix El Segundo LA4

Contegix Names Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer (PR)

Reston, Virginia – Contegix, a leading cloud application service provider, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer. Hokamp takes over from David Turner who partnered with Strattam Capital to complete an investment in Contegix in 2016. Th...

January 23, 2019

Contegix

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

Netrality Properties, owner and operator of network neutral interconnection and data center properties, announced today the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in its Kansas City facility — 1102 Grand. Netrality can now offer customers secure and private con...

October 22, 2018

1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

TierPoint Launches Cloud Connect Express for connections to Azure and AWS from All TierPoint Locations

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced the launch of its new Cloud Connect Express (CCX) service. Leveraging TierPoint’s network assets and Zayo’s CloudLink solution, CCX provides TierPoint customers with ...

October 16, 2018

TierPoint

Light Edge Acquires OnRamp (PR)

DES MOINES, IA – LightEdge expands its geographical reach and redundancy and invests further into the company’s world-class compliant cloud solutions as it acquires Austin, Texas-based OnRamp. “LightEdge is thrilled to announce the expansion of our secure and compliant hosting and colocation ...

July 17, 2018

LightEdge Solutions

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s Fanat...

April 02, 2018

Rackspace

Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers

Iron Mountain Inc. completed its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Phoenix-based IO Data Centers LLC on Wednesday. Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the Boston-based storage and information management services company, bought IO for $1.34 billion. Iron Mountain announced the acquisition Dec. 11. ...

January 10, 2018

Iron Mountain

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