Tag: data centers

December 23, 2022

Happy Holidays to all, time to escape early if you haven’t already folks! Here’s some quick catchup first of a few items beforehand: Prime Data Centers has landed a significant pre-lease out in the Los Angeles market. An unnamed ‘publicly […]

December 5, 2022

One of the biggest byproducts of the global pandemic is its impact on accelerating the digital transformation process. In just a few years, data digitization, often referred to as digital transformation, has profoundly changed the shape of digital business in […]

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 14, 2022

We live in a time where everything seems to be simultaneously centralized and yet distributed, and nothing does that more than cloud infrastructure. But it’s far easier to scale the core than it is the edge, because in the end […]

January 11, 2021

The data center industry continues to evolve rapidly, and that creates opportunities for new providers to come in and shake things up. Prime Data Centers is one of those young companies looking to make their mark, starting on the West […]

October 5, 2020

Microsoft has turned its eye towards Greece with an announcement on Monday that it will build a series of data centers there as part of a new data region. Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a press release that his […]

August 10, 2020

Windstream has picked Ciena for the build-out of its new nationwide optical network, which is slated for turn up in the third quarter of this year. Windstream’s new network, which is called the National Converged Optical Network (NCON), will hook-up […]

August 21, 2019

Warning: totally speculative “what-if” post…. Almost everyone assumes that MEC-type edge-computing will be *inside* 5G or converged fixed-mobile infrastructure. The idea is that telcos will host servers deep in their networks, for low-latency 5G NR radio, coupled to micro-datacentres a […]

January 28, 2019

Information processing can reside anywhere in a network. Traditionally it has been in the data center and now the cloud. The Internet of Things (IoT) is forcing a reconsideration of centralized processing. When processing is performed at the network edge […]

January 8, 2019

SK Telecom is deepening a foray into the content space with Sinclair Broadcast Group. The two are teaming up on a joint venture to develop ATSC 3.0 broadcasting solutions. ATSC 3.0 enables data communications in broadcasting bands, enabling 2-way communications […]

March 13, 2017

Equinix has completed the sale of eight European data center assets to Digital Realty for $874 million, fulfilling a mandate by the European Commission to gain approval of its Telecity Group acquisition. The eight facilities Equinix sold to Digital Realty […]

January 19, 2017

The ongoing adoption of higher speeds in the data center and campus environments will help drive up Ethernet switch market revenues beyond $26 billion in 2020. Dell’Oro Group says that 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps will see demand in campus […]