GOOGLE CLOUD BIGGEST ACQUISITION Google Cloud has just completed its acquisition of the California-based data analytics firm Looker. The deal is expected to boost Google’s cloud offering. This transaction is now the biggest acquisition by Google Cloud and a major…
THE WESTIN BUILDING EXCHANGE Digital Realty has just reached an agreement with Clise Properties to acquire a 49% ownership interest in the Westin Building Exchange in Seattle, Washington. With this transaction, Digital Realty will have a majority stake in the…
ANCHOR TENANT ACROSS 30+ SITES Edge colocation and micro data centers provider EdgeMicro, has entered into a customer agreement with Cloudflare that makes the latter an anchor tenant across more than 30 EdgeMicro’s facilities. These edge deployments are expected to…
A 28,573 SQUARE METER FACILITY Amazon has secured a planning permission for its new data center facility at the IDA Business and Technology Park, Donore Road, Drogheda, Ireland. Application for the approval was submitted by U.S. firm, CAP Developments LLC…
PLANS FIVE CAMPUSES IN EUROPE North American wholesale data center provider Vantage Data Centers, has today acquired Etix Everywhere, an EMEA data center provider for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition marks the launch of Vantage’s European expansion for which it…
EXPANDING LATAM PORTFOLIO Amazon’s cloud services arm AWS, has revealed it plans to invest $236 million (R$1 billion) in Brazil to strengthen its cloud infrastructure over the next two years. The company’s cloud region is precisely in São Paulo, and…
FINALIZING TAX INCENTIVE AGREEEMENT CoreSite Realty Corporation, a data center services provider, has announced that its application with the Illinois Data Centers Investment Program has been accepted by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. This application is in…
ARVIND KRISHNA AND JAMES WHITEHURST TO LEAD IBM Also known as Big Blue, IBM has appointed Arvind Krishna as its new CEO. He will be taking over from Ginni Rometty who has handled this role for about 8 years. Arvind…
ACQUIRED A 225-ACRE LAND Compass Datacenters has started the construction of its second data center campus, which is located near Interstate 35E in Red Oak, south of Dallas, Texas. The hyperscale data center is to seat on a 225-acre land…
A DATA CENTER HUB IN TORONTO Global cloud service provider iland, has just announced a new cloud region in Canada with the opening of its data center facility in Toronto, Ontario. The new data center infrastructure marks the company’s 10th…
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