Facebook Inc. on Thursday said it will build a 147,000-square-foot data center in Prineville, Ore. The project will cost $180 million.
It will be the first corporate-owned data center for the Palo Alto.-based company, the world’s largest social networking service with more than 350 million users.
The data center will be used to store and route information [...]
In a sign that financial institutions may be opening their wallets again or a sign that the long wait during the recession is being pushed by IT demand, Boston-based Fidelity Investments is planning to build a $100m datacenter in Garner, North Carolina. Garner is just outside of Raleigh. The planned 100,000-square-foot facility will provide [...]
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Fidelity Investments is scouting sites for a major data center in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, and is said to be in talks to finalize a deal to build in Garner, a suburb of Raleigh, according to local media. The company is likely to invest at least $60 million in the new 100,000 [...]
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Commercial real estate developer Sabey Corp. has landed a $100 million investment from a new financial partner that will allow it to build as many as 15 new data centers around the country.
The investment by National Real Estate Advisors, which makes investments on behalf of National Electrical Benefit Funds, will enable Seattle-based Sabey Corp. to [...]
SPRINGFIELD – Ground will be broken on the new $110 million state data center on Elliot Street in the spring, with the 115,000-square-foot facility scheduled to be up and running in May 2012.
Details of the center, which will be built on the site of the long-shuttered Technical High School, were presented Thursday afternoon at the [...]
Symantec released its 2010 State of the Data Center study this week. This newsletter is part II of the study conducted by Applied Research of 1,780 respondents.
The state of the data center, Part 1
Of the respondents, 48% said they were making minor changes to their data centers this year and 42% said they were making [...]
It is the age of information and certainly the amount of data that requires storing is growing. This is not a general statement or observation but has also been proven via a survey carried out by Telehouse involving more than hundred senior IT professionals. It was found that the main contributors to this increased demand [...]
Read more →(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com) announced on Friday it will sell $100 million aggregate principal amount of its senior unsecured term notes to Prudential Investment Management and certain of its affiliates.
The notes will be issued in two series, referred to as D and series E notes.
The series D [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Wired Real Estate Group (”WiredRE”), the nation’s leading cloud, colocation & data center advisory firm, have brokered the 10,000 sq-ft data center lease of I2B Networks. WiredRE filled the requirement in less than 60 days.
“With the benefit of WiredRE’s data center knowledge and industry insider perspective, we were [...]
Symantec released its 2010 State of the Data Center study this week. The study conducted by Applied Research found that midsize enterprises of 2,000 to 9,999 employees are more likely to adopt technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization and continuous data protection than either small or large enterprise size businesses.
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