Month: July 2018

Every Monday, the websitehostingreview.org editorial staff will publish a special selection of editorial pieces on a certain topic or trend. The websitehostingreview.org editor’s pick are being marked as # HJPICKS on our social media channels. This week we’re providing you with a list of news items on the latest mergers and acquisitions within the global colocation data center market. 1. Equinix Acquires ‘Iconic’ Infomart Dallas Colocation Data Center for $800M – February 2018 Global data center…

UKFast, a fast-growing hosting provider from the UK headquartered in Manchester, has engaged a team from global investment bank, GCA Altium, headed by their CEO, Phil Adams, to review strategic options including a potential float.  Founded in 1999, UKFast has 19 years’ experience in delivering hosting solutions to businesses, specializing in hybrid and private cloud solutions, dedicated servers and colocation. The firm fully owns and operates five data centers in Manchester. The family of businesses…

KPN Business Continuity Management (BCM) Business can now provide its disaster recovery (DR) and backup services “in a cost-efficient way” in all relevant data centers in the Netherlands by cooperating with NL-ix – a pan-European Interconnect Exchange based in the Netherlands. The added connectivity beyond their own KPN data centers would open up these business continuity services to a much larger group of business end-users in the enterprise and SME segments. Building on the connectivity…

This year VMware is expecting to welcome over 35,000 attendees globally at VMworld 2018 US and VMworld 2018 Europe, to learn how organizations are envisioning and creating the digital future. The 15th annual VMworld 2018 U.S. will be held August 26-30 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Later this year, the 11th annual VMworld 2018 Europe will return to Fira Barcelona Gran Via November 5-8 in Barcelona. With the theme of ‘Possible…