GOOGLE ACQUIRES LOOKER FOR $2.6B Google Cloud has announced entering into a definitive agreement to acquire data analytics firm Looker for $2.6 billion. This will be the biggest acquisition by Google Cloud and a major one under its recent CEO,…
MICROSOFT AZURE AND ORACLE CLOUD TEAM UP Cloud giants Microsoft and Oracle has just announced a cloud interoperability partnership. This alliance enables customers to explore Microsoft Azure and Oracle cloud services from either network or environment. As announced by both…
REBEL CAPITAL MOVES FOR PITTSBURGH DC Rebel Capital Inc. has announced its intention to acquire a 91,790 square feet data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for $32million. The data center and associated properties sit on an approximately 7.65 acre site. The…
EcoDataCenter and Fortlax Merge Swedish data center developer EcoDataCenter, has just signed a merger agreement with the owners of the data center firm Fortlax. According EcoDataCenter, this agreement represents the first step in the company’s strategic plan to consolidate the…
SERVERS.COM NOW IN LONDON To address Brexit concerns, the global hosting firm Servers.com has announced the opening of its new data center in one of Europe’s largest data center hubs, Slough Trading Estate, London. In addition to addressing data sovereignty…
MICROSOFT MOST SUSTAINABLE DC IN SWEDEN Microsoft has just unveiled its plans to build hyper-scale data centers in Gävle and Sandviken, Sweden, and have designed these facilities to be among the most sustainable to date. Microsoft will partner with Swedish…
EQT OFFERS $2.3B FOR VOCUS The Australian telecoms firm Vocus Group Ltd has received a $2.3 billion (A$3.3 billion) acquisition offer from Swedish private-equity firm EQT Infrastructure. Vocus’ rapidly expanding fiber network and its 17 data centers across Australia and…
GOOGLE TO INVEST $672M IN FINLAND Google Cloud has disclosed plans to invest about €600 million ($672 million) in a new Finnish data center. The new facility is to be sited in Hamina, Finland. The new facility will be Google’s…
AWS New Ground Stations Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just launched its first two Ground Stations in Ohio and Oregon, providing Satellite connectivity as a service. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets users control satellite communications,…
Intelliworx New Cloud Services with OnApp Intelliworx has just launched its new global public cloud service, and has adopted the OnApp Cloud Management Platform for its delivery. Intelliworx is a managed services provider to the SMB and mid-market in Australia,…
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