Data Center News

US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority

United States

Two US politicians have proposed a new spectrum pipeline legislation to restore the US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) authority to hold spectrum auctions. This comes about a year after the US Senate allowed it to lapse for the first time ever. The proposal by senators Ted Cruz and J...

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia

United States

Arabsat and cloud and managed services company Anexia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for satellite-connected private cloud infrastructure. This new agreement will bring together satellite communications, private cloud services, and GPU technology services by combining their of...

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

United Kingdom

UK hosting firm CWCS has acquired a property in Nottingham and plans to turn the site into its latest data center. LoopNet lists this property at 3 Padge Road, was built in 1980 and totals 9,300 sq ft (863 sqm) across two floors. Karl Mendez, managing director of CWCS Managed Hosting, said: “I...

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit

Singtel

Alphabet spin-out Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) has launched a new data center-focused unit. “SIP is taking a lead on the private sector solutions by bringing Verrus — a new SIP platform company that builds next-generation data centers — out of stealth after several years of internal ...

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

CDC Cyber Data Center International

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia

Australia

Optus' head of networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam, has resigned months after the Australian telco suffered a lengthy outage,  becoming the second high-profile name at the company to depart after CEO Kelly Bayer resigned in November. The company's interim CEO Michael Ventor informed staff at the telc...

FCC increases benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to 100Mbps

United States

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has increased its benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second. This fulfils a  four-fold increase from the 25/3 Mbps benchmark set by the Commission in 2015 The in...

Iridium Communications acquires PNT provider Satelles for $115 million

United States

Iridium Communications, in its first ever acquisition has acquired Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT) provider Satelles. The company revealed that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, Inc., a provider of satellite-based time and location services akin to GPS and other GNS...

Viavi to acquire Spirent for $1.27 billion

IT communications company Viavi Solutions plans to acquire telecommunications testing company Spirent Communications for £1.005 billion ($1.27bn). This acquisition is to be funded by a mixture of Viavi's existing cash, a fully committed $800m seven-year term loan from Wells Fargo Bank, and a $...

HPE begins production at new facility in Riyah, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has started production at its new facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, manufacturing servers for the company’s ProLiant Gen11 portfolio. The company first announced this production site as a partnership between HPE and digital solutions provider Alfanar in Februa...

BDx secures loan to buy Singapore data center freehold

BDx Data Centers

BDx Data Centers this week announced its Singapore loan market debut with a US$155 million facility from DBS Bank and OCBC. Most of the secures financing will be used to acquire the freehold of OneTen Paya Lebar, the site of BDx’s flagship SIN1 data center. The remaining amount will be divert...

DC Blox expands Birmingham, Alabama data center

DC BLOX

DC Blox has expanded its data center in Birmingham, Alabama, to cater for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, adding additional IT capacity of 2.4MW. The company said it has completed a redesign of its data hall at the facility so that it can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets a...

Singtel sells minority stake in Bharti Airtel

India / Bhārata

Singapore's Singtel has sold an 0.8 percent stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel for S$950 million ($710m) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, trimming it’s stake in the company from 29.8 percent to 29 percent. The company plans to invest the funds in data centers and IT services. "Last N...

Vertiv releases self service deign tool

Vertiv

Vertiv has released the Vertiv Modular Designer Life, a self-service online tool to help customers design and configure prefabricated modular data centers. This tool is a user-friendly web-based application for configuring Vertiv’s SmartMod and SmartMod Max prefabricated modular data centers, ...

Modine plans expansion of Virginia factory

Virginia

Thermal management company Modine plans to expand its existing factory in Rockbridge County, Virginia with a $18.1 million investment. This expansion will create 211 new jobs in Virginia. “Virginia is a world leader in the data center industry, and we are proud to contribute to the industry’s ...

Colt acquires land for new data center in Chennai, India

India / Bhārata

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)  this week announced the acquisition of a 10-acre plot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for a new data center development. The company had previously revealed its intention to expand into India last year with a large campus in Mumbai. In September it then said it was...

Data Clean acquires another data center cleaning business

Colorado (CO)

Angeles Equity Partners-owned company Data Clean Corporation this week announced the acquisition of DP Guardian, Inc., a Colorado-based provider of critical environment cleaning services and installer of airflow containment systems for data centers. “Partnering with DP Guardian is a significa...

Armada partners with Edarat Group to deploy data center modules in Middle East

Middle East

Edge data center firm Armadathis week announced a strategic collaboration with Edarat Group, a data center engineering consulting and cloud services firm in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Following the terms of this partnership, Edarat Group will deploy Armada's modular data c...

Philippines conglomerate SMIC explores move into data centers

Philippines

Philippines conglomerate SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) announced that it is  looking at moving beyond retail redevelopment into data centers, and is planning at least one development in Batangas, south of Philippines capital Manila. SMIC president and CEO Frederic DyBuncio said to the pres...