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Interxion to Acquire Kenyan Icolo In 70% Stake Deal

INTERXION AND PRIF TO INVEST MORE IN AFRICA Based in the Netherlands; European data center giant Interxion, has just entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data center operator. Interxion announced that it has…

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Oracle launches three Government Cloud Regions

ORACLE SECURES FEDRAMP CERTIFICATION Oracle has just announced the launch of three new government cloud data center regions in Ashburn, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois. The new cloud regions are coming after the company secured high-level compliance and security…

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Huawei Cloud Launches New Region in Peru

LATAM PORTFOLIO EXPANSION China based telecommunications giant Huawei, has just launched a new cloud region in Peru which corresponds with its expansion plans in Latin America. The announcement was made at the Huawei Cloud Peru Summit where the company stated…

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Australian Airtrunk Is Up For Auction at $2bn

GOLDMAN SACHS CALLS FOR BIDDERS Australia-based hyperscale data center company Airtrunk, is now up for an auction conducted by Goldman Sachs which values the company at $2.06 billion. Goldman Sachs is reported to have started reaching out to bidders, as…

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Vocus Completes the Coral Project for Australia

THE A$136.6M SUBSEA CABLE SYSTEM Australian telecoms firm Vocus, has confirmed the completion of the Coral Sea Cable System which connects Sydney, Honiara, Port Moresby and the Solomon Islands. The project which includes the 4,700km Coral Sea cable, as well…

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eStruxture Opens New Data Center in Montreal

CONVERTS FORMER PRINTING PRESS BUILDING eStruxture has joined forces with the Architects of Continuity™ from Vertiv to convert a former Gazette printing press building into a new Montreal Data center MTL-2. On the official opening of the converted building, eStruxture…

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OrbitsEdge and HPE to Build Data Centers in Space

HPE EDGELINE CONVERGED EDGE SYSTEMS SETS FOR SPACE OrbitsEdge, an orbit commercial data center service provider, has signed an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to make HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems space-ready. The Titusville, Florida based company is the…

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Macquarie DC Breaks Ground For Its Sydney Data Center

MACQUARIE’S THIRD DATA CENTER IN SYDNEY Australian Macquarie Data Centres, an arm of Macquarie Telecom Group has broken ground for its third data center in Sydney, Australia. Known as Intellicentre 3 (IC3) East, the new facility is set to be…

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Norway-UK Subsea Cable to Land in Green Mountain Facility

A CAPACITY OF UP TO 160 TERABITS PER SECOND A network group which includes Green Mountain has announced it plans to build a new subsea fiber cable that will connect Norway to the UK. As announced, the 700km-long cable will…

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Smartedge to Launch Container-Housed Data Centers Across UK

SETTING UP 11 REGIONAL DATA CENTERS ON A SINGLE DAY Tech start-up SmartEdge Data Centers, has disclosed plans to deploy multiple 20-foot containerized data centers on an Edge network across the United Kingdom. The company said it has selected locations…

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