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Equinix Buys Switch Datacenters’ Amsterdam Data Center for $34M
Says cloud providers, networks, content companies a good fit for its ecosystem strategy Equinix earlier this month agreed to buy AMS1, one of three facilities owned by Amsterdam data center provider...
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Equinix Pitches Virtual Networking Devices as Cloud Services
DCK Investor Edge: The company continues leveraging its Cloud Exchange Fabric investment to add value beyond real estate. Equinix continues to leverage its substantial investment in building out the...
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GIC to Fuel Equinix’s Hyperscale Market Ambition
JV with Singapore’s sovereign fund to finance data center construction for the largest cloud platforms Equinix, the world’s largest data center provider, is putting more firepower behind the push it...
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Equinix Nears Deal to Buy Axtel's Mexico Data Centers
If the deal happens, Equinix plans to use the assets as a platform for aggressive expansion in Latin America's second-largest economy. Michael O'Boyle and Liana Baker (Bloomberg) -- Equinix Inc. is in...
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Equinix Goes to Mexico
The colo giant confirms the Axtel data center deal, continuing to position for growth in emerging markets. Equinix last week confirmed that it is indeed buying three data centers in Mexico from the...
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Equinix CEO: Digital Realty’s Interxion Deal ‘Doesn’t Close the Gap’
While that’s true on a global basis, the deal would be a game changer in Europe. If Digital Realty Trust successfully closes its industry-record acquisition of the European data center heavyweight...
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Data Center REITs Report Solid Third-Quarter Results (Part 2)
DCK Investor Edge: Data center REITs reported an impressive third quarter. Here’s the second part of our earnings coverage. Digital Realty’s announcement of a planned merger with the pan-European...
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Equinix to Buy Key Edge Computing Startup Packet
The deal would add an edge data center element to the world’s largest colo platform. Equinix, the world’s largest data center provider, is buying Packet, a six-year-old startup which provides...
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Equinix Gets a Board Seat at the Open Source Edge Computing Foundation LF Edge
The top-tier membership gives it influence on the foundation's direction, including a say in which new projects get accepted. Less than one month after announcing that it would be buying one of the...
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Equinix’s $335M Packet Acquisition Is Closed. Here’s What’s Next
The colocation giant’s platform-building endeavor enters a whole new phase. Equinix has closed its acquisition of Packet and disclosed how much it paid for the startup: $335 million.The plan is to add...
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Data Center Interconnection Platforms Pitch in to Help IT Scale During the...
The biggest interconnection providers try to take some burden off organizations scaling up to support remote work and education. Many technology companies have been contributing in whatever ways they...
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Equinix and GIC to Build Cloud Data Centers in Japan
Absent domestic cloud giants, US and Chinese platforms are rushing into Japan to fill the void. Japan hasn’t produced a cloud giant of its own, so American and Chinese ones are rushing to sell cloud...
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Equinix Reports Solid Q1, Says Exposure to Pandemic’s Fallout Minimal
Like three other data center REITs, Equinix is cautiously forecasting a strong rest of 2020. While its first-quarter revenue took a relatively small hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, Equinix reported...
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Equinix to Buy 13 Bell Canada Data Centers for $750 Million
The colocation giant said the deal would add 500 net new customers, $105 million in annualized revenue. Equinix is greatly expanding its presence in Canada, going from footprint in only one metro...
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Tech-Exposed Real Estate Is Pulling Away From Other Properties
Communication towers and data center stocks have seen some of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 so far this year. Jennifer Bissell-Linsk (Bloomberg) -- The same trends behind soaring stock prices...
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Change atop Equinix’s Nascent Hyperscale Data Center Business
Jim Smith has stepped down from xScale leadership role, replaced by finance exec Krupal Raval. Jim Smith, who headed Equinix’s relatively recent foray into leasing large chunks of data center capacity...
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Equinix Enters India with a $161M Mumbai Data Center Acquisition
Acquires local provider GPX’s network-dense two-data center campus Equinix is expanding into India, one of the world’s fastest growing markets for digital services.The Redwood City, California-based...
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Data Center Giant Equinix Discloses Ransomware Attack
The colocation provider said the systems attacked were its own, and that no customer systems were affected. Data center provider Equinix said its systems have been subject to a ransomware attack.They...
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Exchanges to New Jersey: Tax Trades, and We’ll Move Data Centers
NYSE, Nasdaq, Cboe threaten to leave the state if the new proposal to tax electronic trades is passed. If you’ve paid attention to the business of high-frequency trading infrastructure in recent years...
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Google Anthos Is Starting to Make Inroads in Colocation Data Centers
The Kubernetes platform has received much attention as a multicloud solution, but its utility extends beyond public clouds. Anthos, the platform at the core of Google’s hybrid cloud play, has received...
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