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With an Eye on the Street, Equinix to Become a REIT
September 13th, 2012 : Rich MillerEquinix plans to convert to a real estate investment trust (REIT), a move that may make the company's shares even more attractive to investors. The colocation provider says the conversion will have no impact on its data centers or services, but will allow the company to pay distributions to shareholders, with an initial payout in 2014 of at least $700 million. Read More
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Nutanix Brings SAN-free Data Center, Raises $33 Million
August 27th, 2012 : John RathNutanix has built a compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive external network storage (like a SAN or NAS). Last week Nutanix raised a new round of financing, led by current investors and joined by a few new ones. Read More
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Analysts See Gains for Equinix in REIT Conversion
July 24th, 2012 : Rich MillerAnalysts say that switching to a real estate investment trust could yield big tax savings for Equinix (EQIX), perhaps as much as $312 million in the first two years as a REIT. Converting to a REIT is likely to prompt a morew favorable valuation from investors, according to Bloomberg news. Read More
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The Hugeness of Jim Cramer’s Data Center Miss
July 6th, 2012 : Rich MillerHow have Wall Street pundit Jim Cramer's critiques of the data center sector worked out. We look at the performance of industry stocks since Cramer told his audience to "sell, sell, sell" shares of data center companies. Read More
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Equinix, DFT Pace Second Quarter Winners
July 2nd, 2012 : Rich MillerData center developer DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) and colocation provider Equinix (EQIX) had the strongest performances among public companies in the data center industry in the second quarter of 2012, notching double-digit gains amid a mixed showing for the sector. Read More
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DH Capital, SaaS Capital Partner to Fund SaaS Firms
May 1st, 2012 : Rich MillerDH Capital and SaaS Capital have launched a fund to provide debt financing to growing software as a service (SaaS) providers, the companies said Monday. Read More
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Wall Street Loves Big Data: Huge IPO Pop for Splunk
April 19th, 2012 : Rich MillerData analytics specialist Splunk had a blockbuster IPO Thursday, with its shares jumping 109 percent on their first day of trading on the NASDAQ market. Read More
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Blockbuster Quarter for Data Center Stocks
April 2nd, 2012 : Rich MillerIt was a spectacular quarter for data center stocks, as investor interest in the growth of cloud computing spurred big gains for providers exhibiting leadership in cloud technologies. Equinix (EQIX) led the way, with shares gaining 55 percent in just three months. Read More
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Strong Fourth Quarter for Data Center Stocks
January 3rd, 2012 : Rich MillerThe U.S. stock markets rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2011, and shares of data center companies fared particularly well during the late-year rally. Read More
RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center

