COMPASS ACQUIRES ROOT DATA CENTER Compass Datacenters has just announced its acquisition of Montreal based wholesale colocation provider Root Data Center, for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition deal is coming barely a week after Compass announced a plan to develop…
IBM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH AT&T IBM and AT&T have announced signing a new cloud deal. This is coming about a week after IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 Billion. The multi-year strategic alliance will have AT&T Communications use IBM’s knowledge…
NO MORE DATACENTERS TILL 2020 The Dutch capital Amsterdam, has just declared a stop in the establishment of more data centers in its municipality and adjoining Haarlemmermeer. Amsterdam claims to be a major city in the world with the highest…
AWS TAKES CHARGE OF THE OPERATIONS Cloud-based software provider Gotransverse, has today launched its new, multi-tenant data center facility in Sydney, Australia. The data center was built for regulatory compliance and to accommodate Gotransverse’s intelligent billing customers in Australia, starting…
DIGITAL REALTY BUYS LAND IN PARIS Digital Realty has just purchased a 3.5 acre (152,460 square feet) land parcel in Ferriers-en-Brie, Paris, for €6.1 million ($6.9m). The company is coming back to Paris to build a 12MW data center, after…
GTT TO ACQUIRE KPN DIVISION GTT Communications has entered a definitive agreement to acquire global IP network operator KPN International, for a fixed amount of €50 million. KPN International is a division of KPN N.V. headquartered in Netherlands, which will…
PDG ACQUIRES FIVE DATA CENTERS Singapore based Princeton Digital Group (PDG), has reached an agreement to acquire 70% ownership of telecommunications operator XL Axiata Data center portfolio. XL Axiata data centers is the second largest mobile communication company in Indonesia,…
ORACLE OPENS SOUTH KOREA REGION Oracle has officially launched its new in Seoul cloud region in South Korea. The company revealed that the facility has been in operation since May 14 of this year. Oracle officials said that while the…
INDIANA PASSES TAX BREAKS American State Indiana, has just signed into law, a bill that gives data centers significant tax exemptions up to 50 years. The bill (INHB1405) was signed into law by Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb, which is…
GOOGLE CLOUD LAUNCHES IN NEVADA Henderson NV., has just witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony of Google’s new data center project in the state, which is worth $600 million as usual. The new facility is sited in Henderson, a city about 16…
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