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The Dutch Datacenter Association, an industry group covering the datacentre industry, has voiced its opposition to the Privacy Shield – the proposed replacement for the EU’s ‘safe harbour’ agreement with the US. Last October the Court of Justice of the … Continue reading →

A blog post from Takeshi Numoto CVP, Cloud + Enterprise at Microsoft has revealed that the  U.S. tech giant plans to open two datacentre’s in South Korea, in line with its efforts to expand cloud computing services in the region. Numoto … Continue reading →

The US software giant Microsoft has been granted permission to construct four datacentres in Dublin that could see the company invest some €900 million. Approval for the scheme which will be built at Grange Castle in Clondalkin has been granted … Continue reading →

The Global datacentre provider Digital Realty Trust has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral datacentres in Europe, five in London, two in Amsterdam and one in Frankfurt, from Equinix.  The … Continue reading →

The Singapore based Keppel Data Centres (owners of Citadel100) has secured some S$84.5 million in contracts to provide colocation and datacentre services at its Singapore Datahub 2 facility. The contracts were signed with an un-named blue-chip client in the Internet enterprise … Continue reading →

The US headquartered file hosting service, Dropbox has said that it hopes that a decision to build and run its own datacentres will entice even more business customers to use its services for storage and collaboration, and help the firm … Continue reading →

LinkedIn, the social networking site for business, has opened a new S$80 million datacentre in Singapore, the company’s first outside the US. The new datacentre, spanning 23,500 sq ft in Jurong, is one of six datacentres for LinkedIn globally. LinkedIn … Continue reading →

Social media giant, Facebook has broken ground on its new €200 million datacentre located at Clonee in the Irish county of Meath. In January, Tom Furlong, VP, Infrastructure announced in a blog post that “Clonee datacentre will be our first … Continue reading →

The Chief Executive of the Irish data centre operator, Dataplex has told the Irish Independent that the company is looking for to secure some €100 million help fund a second datacentre in Dublin. “Dataplex is continuing expansion in the Irish … Continue reading →

NTT DATA and Dell have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for NTT DATA to acquire Dell Services, the global IT services provider. The agreement reflects NTT DATA’s continued focus on expanding its brand and leadership position … Continue reading →