Analysts: Demand Still Outpacing Supply
Demand for data center space continues to outpace supply in most major markets, according to analysts and real estate executives, who say the imbalance is most pronounced in the market for wholesale...
View ArticleLightbound Plans Indianapolis Data Center
Indiana ISP Lightbound LLC has announced plans for a $30 million data center in Indianapolis, and is seeking tax abatements to support the project. Lightbound, formerly known as iQuest, has signed...
View ArticleEchoStar Picks Cheyenne for Data Center
EchoStar Broadcasting Corp. has picked Cheyenne, Wyoming to be the site of a 77,000-square-foot data center. The multimillion-dollar facility, expected to be completed by end of 2011, will be located...
View Article$1 Billion Project Considering Missouri Site?
It used to be that $200 million or $300 million was a lot of money for a data center, and the $500 to $600 million project cost for a Microsoft or Google campus represented the outer limits of data...
View Article$3.5 Billion in Data Center Deals Since 2008
Acquirers have spent more than $3.5 billion in data center transactions in the two years since the financial crisis took hold, according to Jim Kerrigan of Grubb & Ellis, who this week provided an...
View ArticleSurvey: More Companies Ready to Outsource
Providers of colocation services and wholesale data center space compete hard for customers. But data center executives say the biggest growth opportunity is not winning a few more deals away from...
View ArticleM&T Bank Buys Data Center Near Buffalo
M&T Bank has signed a letter of intent to purchase a former HSBC data center in Amherst, New York, the company said today. M&T Bank said it plans to convert the 59,280 square foot building into...
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Tier 1: Oversupply Fears Are Unfounded
Antonio Piraino, Research Director at Tier 1 Research, gives the keynote presentation at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit. LAS VEGAS – Are we in the midst of another Tech Bubble? And is...
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Netcraft: Web Reaches 500 Million Sites
The Netcraft Web Server Survey found 500 million web sites this month. The web now has more than 500 million sites, according to UK research firm Netcraft, which tracks Internet growth. The latest...
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Report: Wholesale Space is 81 Percent Occupied
An example of wholesale data center space, in this case operated by CoreSite. Occupancy rates for wholesale data center space stand at about 81 percent, down slightly from two years ago, according to a...
View ArticleSupply & Demand Shifting in Colo, Wholesale Markets
Supply has finally caught up to demand in many key markets for colocation and wholesale data center space, at least in the immediate term, according to recent client notes from TeleGeography and Avison...
View ArticleIMN Outlook: Optimism About the Future, But With Caveats
Data center investors and developers expressed a sense of cautious optimism about the industry’s future at last week’s IMN Conference on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development for Data...
View Article451 Group Adds Yankee Group, Kevin Heslin
The 451 Group, the parent organization of the Uptime Institute, has acquired the Yankee Group from Alta Communications, a Boston private equity firm. Separately, 451 Research has hired Kevin Heslin as...
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Cloud Builders Still Leasing Data Center Space
Apple is building huge new data centers in three states, including the North Carolina iDataCenter pictured above. Meanwhile, it’s leasing large quantities of data center space in Silicon Valley (Photo:...
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Companies Gobbling Up Turn-Key Data Center Space
Digital Realty Trust has been the leading beneficiary of active leasing of wholesale data center space in recent months. Here’s a look at Digital Realty’s Ashburn campus in northern Virginia. (Photo:...
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Many Factors Boosting Data Center Demand
An example of the hot aisle in a Savvis data center in the London market. (Photo: Savvis) The focus on the modern data center is only continuing to grow. As the business world moves to digitize even...
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Report: Data Center Leasing Surged 25 Percent in 2013
A look inside a wholesale data center suite, which provides turn-key space to host IT equipment. (Photo: DuPont Fabros Technology) Demand from social media companies and cloud-builders contributed to a...
View ArticleOnline Tech Bets On Detroit Resurgence With New Data Center
Online Tech seeks out high-end idle corporate assets in the Great Lakes region and turns them into enterprise-class infrastructure for the middle market. Its latest acquisition is a Westland, Michigan,...
View ArticleReport: Retail Colo Growth in Europe Outpaces Wholesale Data Center Growth
European colocation market growth is being driven by retail carrier neutral services, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group. While wholesale growth has typically been higher than...
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Report: Colo Business Thrives as Enterprises Move to Cloud
The colocation data center market is very well insulated against the huge shift in enterprises pushing IT workloads to the cloud, according to Synergy Research Group. The colocation industry is in fact...
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