CenturyLink has sold its data center and co-location business, as announced in their press-release CenturyLink reaches an agreement to sell data centers and co-location business to a consortium led by…
Equinix buys Verizon data centers
Equinix has completed a transaction to buy 29 Verizon data centers announced in December 2016. The $3.6bn transaction brings the datacenters, 250 staff and 1000 customers to Equinix's portfolio. These…
SDxCentral: VMware offloads vCloud Air to Europe’s OVH
SDxCentral are reporting that VMware have announced that OVH are buying the vCloud Air business. This in part makes sense, as although VMware want to be able to provide hybrid…
CenturyLink moves on Level3
On this side of the pond, CenturyLink isn't a particularly well known carrier, but they've just made a bid for Level 3 Communications, known for their fiber network services. This…
Vocus buys NextGen for fibre backhaul in Australia
Australia's Vocus Communications has just completed the acquisition of NextGen's network assets. (Vocus and NextGen - Better Together). The deal is worth AU$861mn (according to ZDNet, Vocus completes AU$861m acquisition of…
The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet
Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…
503: A weekend of poor internet service
This weekend has seen a few opportunities for various organisations to do better with their internet service performance. On-line coverage of sports events isn't yet quite up to the demands…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…