CenturyLink announced a strategic agreement with IO to expand its hosting and colocation footprint to the Phoenix and Scottsdale AZ markets.

The Savvis brand is being retired, as CenturyLink rebrands its cloud, managed hosting and data center offerings to CenturyLink Technology Solutions.

While CenturyLink was busy unveiling its acquisition of Tier 3, the company's Savvis cloud unit was announcing some expansion of its own. Savvis will expand in Canada with the launch of a new data center in Toronto.

Savvis rolls out a big data solutions suite, which unites enterprise-grade infrastructure with scalable, secure managed services to power data analytics.

Bloom Energy sharpened its focus on the data center industry, and it's paying dividends. CenturyLink/Savvis is another data center that will use the natural-gas-powered fuel cells in its California facility.

Savvis, the cloud infrastructure arm of CenturyLink, will open a Minneapolis data center, leasing a new facility from Compass Datacenters.

Interxion adds Digital Planet and Deluxe Entertainment cloud build-outs, Latisys expands a partnership with IDS, and Savvis connects with the proposed Aquis pan-European equities trading exchange.

Customer wins announced in the colocation industry, with Equinix selected by JPNAP for an expanded Interconnection and peering service into Equinix's newest data center in Tokyo, CoreSite selected by Belgacom International Carrier Services, and...

At the VMworld 2013, VMware (VMW) announced a new vCloud Hybrid Service, new data center locations, and new capabilities to bring existing and new cloud-native applications to the public cloud.

Savvis, the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of a new and rebuilt infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center.