Month: October 2019

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Stream Opens New Hyperscale Facility in Texas

OFFICIALLY COMMISSIONED 15MW FACILITY Stream Data Centers has officially commissioned its newly constructed hyperscale data center DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) VII in Garland, Texas. As announced, this 138,000 square foot facility has positioned the company to meet ongoing demand for colocation…

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Digital Realty to Acquire Interxion in $8.4B Deal

DIGITAL REALTY BECOMES EUROPE’S SECOND LARGEST Digital Realty has just entered into a definitive agreement to acquire European data center giant Interxion in an $8.4 billion deal. The transaction which includes debts, values Interxion at $93.48 per share, a 5.4%…

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Microsoft beats Amazon to Win DoD’s $10B Contract

AZURE MAKES IT TO THE MILITARY ZONE At long last, DoD’s (US Department of Defense) controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud contract has just been awarded to Microsoft over Amazon. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud deal is expected to…

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AWS Gets 15yrs Tax Break on 7th Oregon Campus

A $200 MILLION DATA CENTER FACILITY Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, has gotten a 15-year total property tax exemption for its planned data center campus, which is to be sited in Hermiston, Oregon. Hermiston is a small city in Umatilla County,…

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AMP Capital Acquires Data Center Firm Expedient

AMP GAINS 11 DATA CENTERS U.S. data center provider Expedient, has announced that AMP Capital is set to acquire the company from its current parent, Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC. Expedient is primarily focused on providing data center services in the…

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Interxion Turns German WW2 U-Boat Base to Data Center

€140M FOR BUNKER CONVERSION Dutch colocation provider Interxion, plans to turn a long-abandoned World War II German submarine base in Marseille, into a data center. The company has set out €140 million to convert the uncompleted Southern France “Martha Base”…

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Mark Hurd, Oracle Co-CEO Dies at Age 62

ONE OF THE ULTIMATE SALESMEN IN SILICON VALLEY Larry Ellison, Chairman of Oracle Corporation confirmed and immediately announced the passing of Mark Hurd, which occurred in the morning of Friday, 18 October. Until his death at 62, Mark served as…

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CBRE Expands Its Data Center Solutions Suite

NEW CONVERGED DATA CENTER MODEL Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, CBRE has just launched an expansion of its data center solutions to include full facility management and advisory services. With this expansion, the company now offers an integrated solution which…

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AWS welcomes Old Mutual to its Cloud Infrastructure

SHUTTING DOWN ITS DATA CENTERS BY 2022 Amazon’s cloud arm AWS (Amazon Web Services), has just been selected by Old Mutual Limited to house its 1000+ business applications. Based in South Africa, Old Mutual is one of the oldest and…

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CoreSite Opens Colocation Facility VA3 in Virginia

RESTON CAMPUS EXPANSION US-based data center and peering service provider CoreSite Realty Corporation, has officially opened its third colocation facility VA3 in Reston, Virginia. In August last year, the company received final approval from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors…

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