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PS Lightwave adds Houston data centre with IP Global buy

August 5, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

PS Lightwave acquired IP Global, which provides colocation, connectivity and voice services to SMB a...

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Google’s fourth submarine system to connect US, UK, Spain

August 5, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Google announced the Grace Hopper submarine cable system which will connect New York with Bilbao in ...

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European Court of Justice strikes down Privacy Shield

August 4, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Four years after it went into force, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that the EU-US Priva...

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TikTok said to be Google Cloud customer; also uses colocation

August 4, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

There have been media reports that TikTok signed a three year deal with Google Cloud worth $800m. ...

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Big European contract wins for Wipro; data centre migration, cloud hosting

August 4, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Wipro recently secured two new infrastructure contracts in Europe. ...

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Vantage enters UK with NGD acquisition

August 3, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Vantage Data Centers completed its previously announced acquisition of the UK’s Next Generation Da...

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Google Cloud beats out AWS, Azure for Deutsche Bank contract

August 3, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Google Cloud and Germany-based Deutsche Bank signed a letter of intent that is expected to result in...

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Lamda Hellix providing Azure Stack service in Greece

July 31, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Greek data centre operator Lamda Hellix launched Azure Stack services. ...

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Facebook’s buys stake in India’s Reliance Jio; Microsoft data centre partnership might benefit

July 31, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Facebook has made global headlines with the news that it is investing $5.7b for a 9.99% stake in Ind...

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Waffle House a QTS customer in Georgia for secondary site

July 30, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Waffle House, which operates nearly 2k restaurants across 25 US states, uses QTS’s data centre in ...

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Baidu plans investment in cloud, data centres, AI

July 30, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Baidu is the latest Chinese hyperscaler to outline significant investment plans that will be directe...

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Pulsant beefs up executive team with new CTO, CSO

July 30, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

The UK’s Pulsant appointed Simon Michie as CTO and Stephen Ball as chief sales officer. ...

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