News & Insider Reports

REDMOND, WA & REDWOOD SHORES, CA — Microsoft and Oracle on Wednesday announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database. By enabling customers to run […] more

MISSISSAUGA, ON — Green Mountain and Schneider Electric have announced that 3 MW of data center capacity at the DC2-Telemark site has gone live in readiness for customer occupation. In order to achieve rapid deployment at the brown field development and meet customer requirements, Green Mountain deployed Schneider Electric’s prefabricated EcoStruxure Modular Data Center- reducing time […] more

FREMONT, CA — Rahi Systems has completed two new acquisitions that augment its Integrated Environment strategy, a holistic approach that encompasses all the devices and applications users interact with and the supporting technology behind the scenes. The acquisitions also expand Rahi’s ability to deliver highly efficient data center infrastructure solutions to customers worldwide. Rahi’s acquisition of […] more

BOULDER, CO — Zayo Group Holdings is expanding its fiber infrastructure in Ohio, making significant investments in metro network to support enterprise and mobile carrier customers driven by an anchor customer deal. The network expansion will further strengthen Zayo’s dense Ohio metro networks and add nearly 300 new route miles in the Youngstown and Akron […] more

Check out the latest in deals, development and disruptive technology in the data center space for June 11, 2019: Zayo to Expand Fiber Network in Ohio: Zayo Group Holdings is expanding its fiber infrastructure in Ohio, making significant investments in metro network to support enterprise and mobile carrier customers driven by an anchor customer deal. […] more

SANTA CLARA, CA — Arista Networks has announced a next-generation hybrid cloud architecture for the enterprise. This new offering leverages the Microsoft Azure global network, integrates Arista EOS with Azure and Azure Stack, focusing on the delivery of a seamless hybrid computing experience for organizations of any size. “Hybrid computing, the linking public to private […] more

TEMPE, AZ — First Solar has announced that its Cove Mountain 2 solar power plant will support Facebook’s Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah, through a Power Purchase Agreement with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The 122 MW facility will be built near the town of Enterprise […] more

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Equinix has announced the next phase in the evolution of Platform Equinix with the unveiling of Network Edge services, a new product innovation enabling companies to modernize networks virtually, within minutes, by deploying network functions virtualization (NFV) from multiple vendors to connect their digital supply chains at Equinix. Designed to accelerate […] more

SPRINGFIELD, IL — The Illinois House and Senate have both approved a long-awaited bill that grants tax incentives to data center developers. Activists hope and expect that this legislation will put Illinois back in the data center development game, after falling behind neighboring states such as Iowa. If Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signs the bill, […] more

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Swedish developer of climate-positive data centers EcoDataCenter has reached a merger agreement with the owners of the data center company Fortlax. The merger represents a clear strengthening of the position in the Nordic data center market and supports the ambition to consolidate the data center industry in the Nordic region. The merger […] more