GOT GPX INDIA FOR US$161 MILLION Equinix has announced its acquisition of the India operations of GPX Global Systems, Inc. (GPX India) through an all-cash transaction that is valued at US$161 million. Under the agreement, the acquisition includes GPX India’s business…
TOWERCO GOES INTO DATA CENTER BUSINESS Network tower operator SBA Communications, has acquired the JaxNAP carrier hotel, a data center located in Jacksonville, Florida. This acquisition aligns with SBA’s plan to establish a distributed computing network through its recently-launched SBA…
SIXTH ORACLE-MICROSOFT INTERCONNECT LOCATION Oracle has just announced the opening of its new San Jose Cloud Region, marking the company’s 25th Cloud Region globally – 19 commercial and 6 government. The San Jose facility also hosts the sixth multi-cloud interconnection…
TWO DATA CENTERS FOR AU$417 MILLION Real estate investment trust (REIT) Centuria Industrial, has just bought a data center site in Melbourne from Australian telecommunications company Telstra for AU$417 million (US$300 million). The 3.2 hectare site contains two data centers,…
A CALL FOR DATA RESIDENCY The President of Egypt Abdel-Fattah El Sisi has endorsed the country’s new Personal Data Protection Law No. 151, and will now be implemented from 14 October 2020. The draft law had earlier been approved by…
THE GRACE HOPPER SUBSEA CABLE Google has just announced a new subsea cable Grace Hopper, which will establish a direct connection between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain. This cable is named after a pioneer Computer Scientist and…
PART OF THE $3.5B PORTFOLIO PARTNERSHIP Capital management company CBRE Caledon, has announced its acquisition of a significant minority stake in the newly-formed platform that contains 12 North American stabilized operating facilities of Vantage Data Centers. The newly-formed platform is…
THE COMPANY’S FIRST DATA CENTER New US-based data center company Novva Inc., has just announced the commencement of its first hyperscale data center campus project, sited in West Jordan, Utah. The campus is planned to be developed in four phases,…
STARTING WITH 100MW LONDON FACILITY Real estate investor and manager Cromwell, has entered into a partnership with Stratus Data Centres to setup up a data center fund that is worth US$1 billion. The new Stratus Cromwell Data Centre Fund (SCDC…
HOSTED BY INTERXION DATA CENTER Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the launch of its new cloud services HPE GreenLake, which is dedicated to the European market including the UK. HPE GreenLake is currently hosted by Interxion, a Digital Realty…
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