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…
NEXT TO A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Russian Rostelecom Data Centers has launched its new facility in Udomlya, Russia, which marks the commencement of commercial operations for this data center. The Udomlya data center is sited on the grounds of Kalininskaya…
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…
DATAGRYD COMPLETES 5MW DATA CENTER New York data center provider DataGryd, announced that it has completed the construction of its data center suite MegaSuite 6, in New York. The new DataGryd megasuite facility is located on the sixth floor of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ASCENTY EXPANDS LATAM NETWORK Latin American colocation provider Ascenty, has just announced the opening of four new data centers in the greater Sao Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil. The new Brazil facilities are located in Jundiai, Hortolandia and Paulinia, which…
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…
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