Last year was capped with two blockbuster data center deals that in a way represent the closing of a full circle. The data centers Verizon sold to Equinix for $3.6 billion came into the carrier’s fold in 2011, when it acquired Terremark Worldwide, a company founded and at the time […]

Here are the top stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this week: Digital Realty Signals the Gloves are Coming Off in 2017 – After a two-year focus on leasing up finished inventory and limiting speculative development, the San Francisco-based data center REIT’s outlook for 2017 includes spending up to $1 billion on […]

Lloyds Banking Group is in talks with IBM about potentially selling its data centers to the US company and having it run them as a service provider to the British financial services giant, The Register reported, citing anonymous sources. The move is seen as a potential way to raise cash […]

If you want to infiltrate a Google data center, you’ll have to think of ways to go around laser intrusion systems, biometric identification, good old security cameras, and, in at least one case, alligators. If physical data center intrusion is not your thing, hacking your way into the massive cloud […]

(Bloomberg) — Autonomy Corp.’s former chief financial officer pleaded not guilty to charges he schemed to inflate the price of his company’s $11 billion takeover by Hewlett-Packard Co. as the U.S. continues its investigation. After Sushovan Hussain entered his plea Thursday, the San Francisco federal judge overseeing the case said he […]

(Bloomberg) — Team8, founded by veterans of an elite Israeli intelligence unit to solve what they consider the world’s most pressing cybersecurity problems, welcomed Citigroup Inc. and the venture arms of Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. into its syndicate. The group of military veterans, who have raised more than $92 million, plan to launch two […]