Monthly Archives: March 2013

Data Centers: The Shift in Demand to Secondary Markets

[Courtesy of Capacity Magazine] In the course of the past year or so, there has been a rather seismic shift of data centers being located primarily in tier 1 cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Ashburn, Virginia, to … Continue reading

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Equinix Announces 385,000 SF Data Center in Singapore

Equinix has partnered with Mapletree Industrial Trust (a leading industrial real estate investment trust listed in Singapore, to build Equinix’s third International Business Exchange data center in Singapore. The new Singapore IBX will be located in close proximity to Equinix’s existing SG1 data center … Continue reading

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Apple Reaches 100% Renewable Energy Across All Data Centers

Apple said all of its data centers were now fully powered by renewable energy, including facilities in California, Texas, Ireland and Germany. Data centers that house computing infrastructure for services like iTunes, Siri, Maps and the App Store now get … Continue reading

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DataBank Holdings Acquires Colocation Services Provider VeriSpace

Data center provider DataBank Holdings (based in Dallas, Texas) announced the acquisition of VeriSpace, a colocation services provider based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The acquisition gives DataBank an instant entry into a new geographic market and increases its data center portfolio to … Continue reading

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Former Parking Garage Becomes Data Center in Seattle

[Courtesy of Data Center Knowledge] A former parking garage in Seattle next to the Westin Building is now the newestEquinix data center. Equinix has opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in downtown Seattle, adding 51,000 square feet of data … Continue reading

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Pacnet to Invest $90 Million in New Singapore Data Center

Pacnet today announced a US$90m investment to build a new data center in Singapore to meet the region’s accelerating demand for connected, advanced data center and managed services. Strategically located in the Paya Lebar area, the eight-storey, 157,000 sq ft … Continue reading

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ColoATL Builds Out Space in Atlanta

News from the colocation and service provider sector includes expansions and customer wins for ColoATL, QTS and RagingWire Data Centers. ColoATL builds-out 55 Marrieta Street Space  ColoATL announced a significant build-out of its space at 55 Marrieta Street in downtown Atlanta. … Continue reading

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CyrusOne Gets Ready to Launch Houston Data Center

CyrusOne said it plans to open its new Houston West data center this month, seven months after breaking ground at the site. It first announced its 120,000 sq ft expansion at its property, which houses another two large CyrusOne facilities, in August … Continue reading

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Houston, TX Ranks Number 1 Amongst the Top 20 Web Hosting Cities

Houston, Texas is the favorite hosting location for the world’s most popular web sites, according to Pingdom, which has mapped the hosting universe using the top 1 million sites. The Pingdom survey found Houston was the clear winner, hosting 50,598 … Continue reading

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Interxion Uses Sea Water to Cool Stockholm Data Centers

European data center provider Interxion is no stranger to innovation. Over the years, the company has been a pioneer in modular design and hot aisle containment, and is now using seawater to cool a Stockholm data center, generating some serious efficiency benefits. … Continue reading

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