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Thursday, July 5th, 2018
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| 11:38a |
Where Workloads Matter: Colocation Trends for Tomorrow’s Applications
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight TimeDuration: 1 hour
As organizations of all kinds increasingly adopt a hybrid IT strategy, the reliance on colocation to augment data center capabilities becomes increasingly important. An | | 4:44p |
Teraco, Africa's Largest Data Center Firm Plans $73M Investment
Teraco, the largest data center provider in Africa, is planning to invest $73 million in the latest round of expansion
• The company expects to have spent four and a half times that amount when the current investment cycle ends next year
• The funding has come from a debt facility by Barclays Africa Group
• More than 200 African telcos use Teraco's data centers in Johannesburg | | 5:37p |
Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought
Mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new wholesale data center initiative has been 100MW per year, but one of the company’s top executives told Data Center Knowledge that the sales pipeline for HIT is already 400MW
• HIT, which stands for Hyperscale Infrastructure Team, is part of the retail colocation giant’s strategy to reel in the next wave of data center deployments by the largest cloud and SaaS providers, who are expected to attract more enterprise business
• Leading HIT is Jim Smith, former CTO of Digital Realty Trust, which has a similar strategy | | 6:01p |
Digital Realty Is in Talks to Buy Data Center Provider Ascenty
Digital Realty Trust is discussing a potential acquisition with the Brazilian data center provider Ascenty, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources
• Digital may invest in Ascenty along with a joint venture partner
• Ascenty, backed by Great Hill Partners, counts Oracle, Amazon, and Facebook as its clients |
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