Tag equinix

December 18, 2017

Australia’s MetroNode acquired by Equinx in $792mn deal

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag acquisition, Americas, Asia, Australasia, Australia, Canada, capacity, development, equinix, expand, government, hosting, market, metronode, nextgen, otpp, vocus

Australia's MetroNode hosting company has been acquired by Equinix for $792mn. 100 % held by the Canadian Ontario Teachers Pension Plan currently, MetroNode was previously part of the NextGen Group.…

May 3, 2017

Verizon Sells its private cloud to IBM

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag bluemix, Cloud, datacenter, divestiture, equinix, finance, hosting, IBM, softlayer, techcrunch, theregister, Verizon Communications

IBM's news feed is silent on the aspect, but Verizon have issued a press release on selling the Verizon cloud and managed hosting service to IBM . It states that…

May 1, 2017

Equinix buys Verizon data centers

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag acquisition, Americas, Brazil, colocation, columbia, datacenter, equinix, finance, government, hosting, market, terremark, Verizon Communications

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…