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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
It 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...
The 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.
