A Dallas judge has denied a company's request to force the FBI to return storage hardware seized during last week's raid of a Dallas data center. The FBI admits that the company is not a target of the investigation.
The FBI is defending its actions in several controversial raids on Dallas data centers, in which it seized equipment belonging to customers with no visible ties to the fraud charges the agency was investigating.
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.
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.
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.
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.