Deal is biggest of three this year, as company continues to sell “non-core” properties

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Publicly committed to 100-percent-renewable operations, company says energy storage helps use more renewable energy, improve reliability

Vert.com’s design inspired by Quebec’s cylindrical supercomputer data center

Applied Micro’s X-Gene shows performance similar to “incumbent” servers at lower cost

Combined company will cover Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest

Makes headway in error detection and system scalability

Gains instant New York metro presence through $400M all-cash transaction

Private Equity owners ABRY Partners and Berkshire Partners are allegedly prepping for a potential $2 billion sale of the interconnection specialist

Apprendas PaaS now supports Docker containers, combining policy-based access control enterprises need with the flexibility of containers