Analyst Notes

Google to self-build data centre in Greater Montreal area

May 18, 2021
Ainsley Woods

Google plans to acquire land in Beauharnois, Quebec with the intent of building a data centre at an ...

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DC BLOX acquires land in High Point, NC to build data centre

May 18, 2021
Al Lu

DC BLOX, serving markets in the southeastern US, bought land in High Point, North Carolina to build ...

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Rocket.net partners, receives financing from SMB provider HostPapa

May 18, 2021
Philbert Shih

New managed WordPress hoster Rocket.net received $1.1m in financing from HostPapa, a SMB provider ba...

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McLaren Construction’s migration to Azure accelerated due to pandemic

May 18, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

McLaren Construction Group, which has operations in the UK and UAE, was already modernising its IT i...

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VEXXHOST opens new European data centre in Amsterdam with Interxion

May 17, 2021
Philbert Shih

VEXXHOST, a Montreal-based cloud and hosting provider, will set up a new data centre in Amsterdam wi...

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Zenlayer raises $50m in Series C round; targets more global expansion

May 17, 2021
Philbert Shih

Los Angeles-based cloud and edge provider Zenlayer closed a $50m Series C financing round. ...

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AWS adds Local Zone nodes in three US cities

May 17, 2021
Philbert Shih

AWS brought online new Local Zone nodes in Boston, Miami and Houston that follow the first two locat...

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Google puts new Netherlands data centres on hold

May 17, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Google scaled back plans for its campus in Middenmeer in the Netherlands, where it opened its first ...

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Linkbynet’s business transformation ends with Accenture acquisition

May 17, 2021
Daniel Beazer

Accenture acquired mid-market French MSP Linkbynet. No details were disclosed. ...

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AWS self-build outside Paris facing local push-back

May 17, 2021
Ainsley Woods

Earlier this year, AWS filed for a permit to build a data centre on the site of an existing Amazon l...

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M&A, Canada, MSP, managed third party cloud, APAC, hyperscale, earnings

May 17, 2021
Philbert Shih

It was another busy week across the sector, with a number of developments in M&A across Canada ...

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Google Cloud awards 10-year contract for renewable energy in Virginia

May 14, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Google is tapping power plant developer AES Corp for renewable energy to power its data centres in V...

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