Tag: DataBank

July 5, 2023

Some data centers are changing hands over in Europe. Earlier this week, DataBank announced that it has entered into an agreement with Etix Everywhere to sell off five data centers in France totalling some 73,000 square feet of colo space. […]

April 18, 2023

Four data center moves in four geographies to catch up with: AMS-IX and Equinix’s MDXi have teamed up for a new African internet exchange. They have launched AMS-IX Lagos in Nigeria, leveraging AMS-IX’s technology on MDXi’s physical infrastructure and commercial […]

November 1, 2022

A bit of M&A, some federal funding, and a product launch: Datalec Precision Installations has announced the acquisition of Technivo. Technivo specializes in technical cleaning services in the UK and Europe, which will complement Datalec’s broader data center design, supply, […]

July 12, 2022

Three interesting items so far this week, a small M&A, a partnership, and an upgrade: There has been a bit of data center M&A down in northern Florida. StratCap Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a triple-net-leased facility in […]

February 9, 2022

Several data center and interconnection items plus some enterprise security: Great Plains Communications has launched a new security offering aimed at the enterprise marketplace. They are teaming with Alarm.com to offer cloud-based physical security and video monitoring to enterprises in […]

February 4, 2021

DataBank has finally closed out the last stage of its acquisition of Zayo’s zColo division. The final hurdle was those five data centers in France, which had been held by a different corporate entity under different regulatory environment and required […]

April 23, 2020

Ciena’s Blue Planet is contributing some new code to the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Automation Platform Policy Framework. The additional functionality is aimed at giving service providers who use ONAP more flexibility in administering intent-based policies. In parallel, they are […]

March 5, 2020

Avelacom has added a new PoP in Ashburn, offering direct connectivity to Amazon AWS’s US-East-1 region. The expansion gives them 65.3ms round-trip latency between AWS Ashburn and AWS Dublin, which apparently is a key cryptocurrency arbitrage route. Avelacom has made […]

January 7, 2020

Time to catch up on a bit of news from the start of the week: two new products, a financial investment, and a CEO transition: DataBank’s ownership structure has shifted around a bit this week. Colony Capital has invested another […]

September 19, 2019

WANRack has completed another regional/metro fiber buildout. They have added some 60 route miles of new network throughout Hernando County in Florida, hooking up the usual anchor institutions and aggregation sites and reaching into business districts. Hernando County lies along […]

September 9, 2019

DataBank has added some DRaaS to its data protection diet. The new capability is a turn-key service based on technology from both Zerto and Veeam. Enterprises can use the service to recover workloads, applications, and systems in the event of […]

August 16, 2019

According to Fierce Telecom, Cisco is tightening its belt with some layoffs. Filings show the company let 462 people go out of their San Jose and Milpitas locations in California between the end of July and Tuesday of this week. […]

April 24, 2019

Cologix has tapped Ciena’s Blue Planet SDN technology to boost its ecosystem. They have launched a new SDN-powered connectivity platform, called Cologix Access Marketplace, which offers real-time cloud on-ramps. Initially those on-ramps will be to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, […]