IBM.com has a new home. Big Blue's web site now resides in a huge new cloud computing data center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where IBM is investing $362 million to build out more than 100,000 square feet of data center space.
Savvis (SVVS) is in building mode, and may be going shopping as well. The managed hosting provider plans to build additional data center space in the northern Virginia and London markets, in addition to the expansion announced today in Chicago.
Roundup: Level 3 works to deliver uncompressed high-definitiion video for Super Bowl, AboveNet extends its UK fiber network to Sentrum's new 200,000 square foot data center in Surrey, UK.
Responding to growth in its proximity hosting services for financial companies trading derivatives and commodities, Savvis (SVVS) is expanding its data center at 350 East Cermak, a key connectivity hub in downtown Chicago.
CoreSite will expand its Boston data center located at 70 Innerbelt Road in Somerville, Mass., adding 12,000 square feet of space in the second quarter of 2010.
European data center specialist Interxion has raised €200 million (about $278 million U.S.) through a sale of notes, the company said Tuesday.
New Jersey's Russo Development has become a leading supplier of data centers for Wall Street. Over the past decade the Hackensack, N.J. company has built seven major data center projects spanning 1.7 million square feet.
Shareholders of Switch & Data (SDXC) have voted to approve the company's proposed acquisition by Equinix (EQIX), the companies said Friday. Completion of the $700 million deal is expected in the second quarter.