Month: August 2019

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iSeek Opens Cyclone-proof Data Center in Australia

CATEGORY-5 CYCLONE-PROOF FACILITY Australia-based data center provider iSeek, has just launched its new North Queensland Regional data center in Townsville, Australia. The data center facility which is set on the lower floor of the new Local Disaster Coordination Centre (LDCC),…

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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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Rostelecom launches 48MW Facility in Russia

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…

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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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