Colocation

ROOT Data Center has announced plans to build a third data center to become part of its MTL-R1 La Salle campus in Montréal. MTL-R1B is a greenfield data center development that will create an additional 10MW of power capacity, allowing ROOT Data Center to meet the growing demands of new and existing customers.

Iron Mountain has signed a partnership with Google Cloud - to develop new AI-powered SaaS solutions on GCP. Through this partnership, Iron Mountain plans to help organizations analyze their vast physical and digital information and data repositories, to unlock insights, improve decision making and create new revenue streams.

OneNeck IT Solutions has signed a multi-year contract with Wisconsin-based Rogers Behavioral Health. As part of the agreement, OneNeck will provide hosted private cloud services and colocation space at its “top-tier” data center in Madison, Wisconsin.

H5 Data Centers has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ portfolio across the U.S. to 12 data centers and compliments its 300,000 square-foot data center in downtown Seattle.

YellowFolder, a large supplier of digital file cabinet services to K-12 schools in the U.S., has moved its IT infrastructure from a virtual cloud-based storage solution to a colocation data center. According to YellowFolder, this is saving them nearly a million dollars in service costs per year.

Global colocation and interconnection provider Equinix has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include private connectivity to AWS Direct Connect at Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in the São Paulo and Miami metros.

Datacenter One has selected ADVA’s FSP 3000 with ConnectGuard encryption technology to provide a secured DCI network for one of its major financial clients.

Iron Mountain’s new 550,000 square-foot, 48-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant and cloud data center is designed to meet the security and performance expectations of the largest public cloud providers and maintain the stringent compliance requirements of global enterprise and public sector customers.

Hybrid colocation and mega-scale data center solutions provider QTS has added new tools and features as part of QTS' Service Delivery Platform (SDP) - a software-defined data center platform engineered to manage and optimize hybrid data center deployments.

Data center company Equinix and Oman telecommunications company Omantel have entered into a joint venture to deliver colocation data center and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East. Together, they will develop a new network-dense data center that will be located in Barka, near Muscat, the capital of Oman.

vXchnge, a carrier-neutral colocation services provider headquartered in Tampa, Florida, has announced the availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in its Austin, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Santa Clara and St. Louis data centers.

Zayo will open a new colocation data center in Atlanta in July. The new facility at 1150 White Street SW will add 72,100 total...

3W Infra, a fast growing global provider of ‘pure play’ IaaS hosting solutions with 4,600 dedicated servers under management and a proprietary global network, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Netherlands-based A2B Internet.

Colt Data Centre Services, an international carrier-neutral data center, and colocation services provider, has selected ClearDB’s MySQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution to power its multi-cloud, always-on customer portal and management application.