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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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SHI to Open 400,000 sq ft Data Center in New Jersey

COMING THIS MONTH US-based SHI International Corp., has announced that it is ready to officially open the new 400,000 square feet data center in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Ridge Integration facility is an addition to SHI’s existing 300,000 square feet…

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Cellnex Buys 8,300 UK Towers from Arqiva for £2B

CELLNEX BECOMES UK NEW TELECOM GIANT Cellnex, a Spanish telecom company has just acquired 8,300 communication towers and masts across the UK from Arqiva in a £2 billion ($2.5 billion) deal. This is not just one of largest telecom deals…

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NGD Data Center is up for Sale in £200M Deal

BRITISH L&G IS INTERESTED Next Generation Data (NGD) has been put up for sale; a 750,000 square feet data center facility in Newport, South Wales, valued around £200 million ($244m). NGD is currently owned by French investment firm InfraVia and…

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Equinix to acquire Three Axtel Data Centers in Mexico

EQUINIX FIRST IN CENTRAL AMERICA California based colocation services provider Equinix, has just entered into an agreement to acquire three data centers from Axtel in Mexico for $175 million. These Mexican facilities will mark the first for Equinix in Central…

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Amazon to Build $800M Data Center in Argentina

ARGENTINA WINS CHILE WITH TAX INCENTIVES AWS, the cloud services arm of Amazon is planning to invest $800 million in Argentina for the construction of a regional data center. The new 10-year project has been an investment proposal for South…

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Databank Acquires Lightbound and divest Fiber Assets

LIGHTBOUND ASSETS GOES INTO DATABANK AND EVERSTREAM DataBank has just acquired LightBound, an Indianapolis-based colocation, network and cloud services provider; gaining two enterprise-class facilities. With the closing of the deal, DataBank immediately divested a part of the acquired assets –…

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