NetApp (NTAP) has paid $119 to buy two data centers it was leasing from BNP Paribas Lending Group, unwinding a 2007 deal to gain finaincing to build the facilities in Research Triangle and Sunnyvale, Calif.
Colocation provider Pryme Technologies will open a newd ata center in Ashburn, Virginia in July.
ServerCentral is expanding its operations with a new data center in the Chicago market, leasing space in DuPont Fabros Technology's new CH1 data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Managed hosting provider Cervalis LLC has leased space from Russo Development in northern New Jersey to expand its growing disaster recovery business.
The FBI raided a Dallas carrier hotel Thursday and seized equipment from data center space operated by Core IP Networks. Agents armed with a search warrant appear to have confiscated all the servers in the facility.
AXA Equitable is consolidating work from six East Coast data centers into about 200,000 square feet of data center space in the Atlanta area.
Global banking giant HSBC, which once planned to build a huge data center complex in upstate New York, will instead shift the work from its Buffalo-area data centers to facilities in Chicago.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking at alternatives to its current primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia.
The Social Security Administration will use fresh funding from the Obama administration's stimulus plan to build a $750 million high-security data center in the Baltimore area.