Colocation

Private equity firm ABRY Partners is staying busy in the data center sector, bringing together Xand and Access Northeast to form one of the largest privately held data center companies in the Northeast.

Private equity firm Halyard Capital has acquired two service providers in the Pacific northwest, digital.forest and Fortress Colocation, to create Digital Fortress, a new colocation company.

Peak 10 to add 41,000 square feet to Nashville campus, Phoenix NAP selected by NIC Inc., Emerson's ASCO to integrate Avtron acqusition.

Geography is always at the top of the list of considerations by companies when choosing a colocation partner or data center location. Location can affect everything from the cost of electricity to the availability of a skilled workforce. What is...

Firehost launches services in Phoenix, Telx selected by Black Lotus, Internap selected by Sahara Force India, TelecityGroup data centers in France recertified for ISO 27001.

Fusion-io selected by Webair, Wyse and Microsoft power the classrom, Layered Technologies offers SLA tied to compliance.

Is Sealand still operating a functional hosting facility? The leader of the offshore "data haven" says they still have servers hosted there, but doesn;t comment on stories suggesting Wikileaks may host its servers there.

Colo5, a data center operator in Jacksonville, Florida, said it has recently begun an expansion of its primary data center and says it is planning additional facilities

Internet service provider Knology has acquired Tampa-based colocation provider E Solutions Corporation for $13.8 million in cash, the companies said today. E Solutions operates two SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in Tampa.

Data center users are increasingly likely to run out of power before they run out of space. This white paper from SunGard examines the relationship between wattage and floor space in data centers, and how users can make intelligent choices on...