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Data centre M&A activity set for another record year

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that 52 data center-oriented M&A deals closed in the first half of 2019, up 18% from the first half of 2018 and continuing a strong growth trend seen over the last four years. The number of deals closed in the first half exceeded the total amount closed in the whole of 2016. 2019 is in line to be another record year for data center M&A deal volume with eight more deals having closed since the beginning of July, 14 more that have been agreed upon with...

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CDN77 selects maincubes to house its Frankfurt Point-of-Presence

CDN77, a 14+Tbps Content Delivery Network, with 35 PoPs in strategic IX locations around the globe, has selected European data center operator maincubes as its colocation partner for establishing a Point-of-Presence in Frankfurt, Germany. maincubes currently operates two data centers in Europe, in Frankfurt (FRA01) and Amsterdam (AMS01) respectively.

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CenturyLink to begin Edge Compute Services investment

Enterprise customers, hyperscale clouds, wireless carriers and system integrators all stand to benefit with lower latency and increased IT agility.

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Digital Realty appoints EMEA MD

Digital Realty has appointed Jeffrey Tapley as Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mr. Tapley has served as interim Managing Director, EMEA since March 2019, with responsibility for Digital Realty’s operations in the region. He will be based in London and will continue to report directly to Chief Financial Officer Andrew P. Power.

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UK Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2019 agenda revealed

IT Europa and Angel Business Communications have published details of the agenda of the ninth annual UK Managed Services & Hosting Summit which will be staged in London on 18 September 2019. The event will bring leading vendors and distributors of Managed Services technologies and solutions distributors and hosting providers together with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and resellers, integrators and service providers developing their own managed services portfolio and sales of hosted...

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Lack of budget compromises government cloud adoption

espite federal government initiatives to encourage cloud adoption, the number of public sector organisations that are willing to implement a cloud-first strategy or become 100% cloud has dropped by 20% since 2018.

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The most secure data centre in Scandinavia?

Hidden deep in a mountain, Green Mountain’s data centre is cooled by the cold waters of a Norwegian fjord. Working with nature, Green Mountain is saving energy and protecting the environment — leading the way to cutting data centre energy use by a third.

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