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Seaport Capital Invests in NJ’s Net Access
September 18th, 2012 : Rich Miller
New Jersey's Net Access has received a strategic investment led by Seaport Capital, a private equity firm with extensive experience in the data center sector. Read More
M&A Action: Akamai acquires FastSoft
September 17th, 2012 : John Rath
In this week's M&AS news, Akamai (AKAM) has acquired content acceleration software provider FastSoft, CA Technologies (CA) acquires Paragon Global Technology, and AMD invests in cloud-based gaming provider CiiNOW. Read More
With an Eye on the Street, Equinix to Become a REIT
September 13th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Equinix 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
Nutanix Brings SAN-free Data Center, Raises $33 Million
August 27th, 2012 : John Rath
Nutanix 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
Analysts See Gains for Equinix in REIT Conversion
July 24th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Analysts 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
The Hugeness of Jim Cramer’s Data Center Miss
July 6th, 2012 : Rich Miller
How 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
Equinix, DFT Pace Second Quarter Winners
July 2nd, 2012 : Rich Miller
Data 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
DH Capital, SaaS Capital Partner to Fund SaaS Firms
May 1st, 2012 : Rich Miller
DH 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
Wall Street Loves Big Data: Huge IPO Pop for Splunk
April 19th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Data 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