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Advanced gets £2B Investment from BC Partners

BC PARTNERS BUYS 50% STAKE UK-based software service provider Advanced, which was acquired in 2015 by Vista Equity Partners, has received a £2billion private equity investment from BC Partners. While Advanced will be using this fund to support its cloud…

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EdgeConneX Opens Edge Data Center in Argentina

THE COMPANY’S FIRST IN SOUTH AMERICA US-based data center provider EdgeConneX, has opened its latest edge data center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently offering 1MW of power capacity. The new EdgeConneX Argentina facility is the company’s first edge data center…

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Oracle Opens New Cloud Region in Switzerland

ORACLE OPENS FIFTH 2019 REGION Oracle has just announced the availability of its new cloud infrastructure region in Zurich, Switzerland. This facility will also complement the company’s London and Frankfurt regions. With the new region, Oracle seeks to support its…

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AWS Acquires Israeli Storage Start-up E8

E8 BUILDS DATA CENTER STORAGE WARES Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Israel-based storage technology startup E8 Storage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Following the acquisition, the team of 25 at E8 Storage, which provides flash storage for the…

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Keppel to Build New Data Center in Sydney, Australia

KEPPEL ACQUIRES LAND IN SYDNEY Singapore based Keppel Data Centers, has just acquired a 3,840 square meter (41,300 square foot) plot of land in Sydney, Australia, for the construction of its new data center. The land is located next to…

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eStruxture Acquires Shaw’s Calgary-1 Data Center

A QUEST FOR CLOUD LEADERSHIP Canadian provider of carrier and cloud-neutral data center solutions eStruxture, has signed an agreement to acquire Shaw Communications’ Calgary data center. Code named “Calgary-1”, the data center acquisition deal gives eStruxture all contractual relationships residing…

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AWS joins Microsoft in the Middle East Bahrain

AWS OPENS FIRST M.E. REGION IN BAHRAIN The cloud giant AWS (Amazon Web Services) has just opened its first Middle Eastern region in Bahrain, following rival Microsoft. About a month ago, Microsoft outran AWS and Google Cloud to open its…

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Colony Capital Acquires Digital Bridge for $325M

COLONY WILL NOW HAVE $60B ASSETS Investment management company Colony Capital, has just announced its acquisition of Digital Bridge Holdings LLC for $325 million. The acquisition of Digital is coming just after the final closing of Digital Colony Partners, a…

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Equinix Opens Its Eleventh Data Center TY11 in Tokyo

INVESTS $70M ON FIRST PHASE Equinix has graced Japan with the launching of another data center facility in Tokyo, and dedicated $70 million to the first phase development. The new data center facility provides a capacity of 950 cabinets and…

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Google Plans a $600M Data center in Kansas City

TAX BREAK WORTH UP TO $25B The tech giant Google is considering a $600 million data center project in Kansas City, Missouri, with approval from local authorities. As reported by The Kansas City Star, the Port Authority of Kansas City’s…

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