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Facebook opens up on datacentre switch

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Michael

Social media giant, Facebook has built a switch to link servers inside its datacentres, and wants to make the platform available to others. Jay Parikh, the company’s vice president of infrastructure engineering. Announced the switch – which has been codenamed … Continue reading →

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Equinix to open sixth Slough datacentre

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Michael

Global datacentre company Equinix, has announced it will build a new datacentre called LD6 in its London Slough campus in response to consistent demand from customers in the financial services, content, cloud and enterprise segments. The announcement follows yesterday’s news that the company … Continue reading →

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US Wholesale data centre leasing activity up 25%

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Michael

US real estate firm, Avison Young have produced their latest review of the US datacentre market – January 2014 Report: 2013 Year in Review – which provides an overview of activity in the US market over the past twelve months.  (Image: Real … Continue reading →

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CyrusOne continues Texas data center expansion

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Michael

Global colocation solutions provider CyrusOne has announced the purchase of 22 acres in the MetCenter business park in Austin, Texas. It intends to use the acreage to increase datacentre capacity in Austin where it currently has 54,000 sq ft of colocation space. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft to invest €170 million in Dublin datacentre expansion

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Michael

IT giant, Microsoft is set to invest some €170 million to expand its datacentre in Dublin.  Work on the expansion of the facility, which serves Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has already begun. The West Dublin located datacentre was officially opened … Continue reading →

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