DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Africa, Equinix
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Approval for rezoning given to pair of proposed Equinix data centers in Cape Town, South Africa
But proposal faces mounting opposition
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Equinix plans $22 million data center in Lagos, Nigeria
Company to launch third facility in Lagos next year
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Equinix opens expansion in Lagos, Nigeria
Expansion took place at existing facility, though details are sparse
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Equinix's MainOne acquires Equiano capacity
Will fortify the operator's network after suffering outages in March last year
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Wole Abu to replace MainOne founder Funke Opeke as Equinix's West Africa MD
Funke Opeke has stepped down, will assume advisory role
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Equinix launches first South African data center in Johannesburg
Phase one to offer capacity for 700 racks across 20,000 sq ft
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Equinix drops MDXi brand for West Africa data center division
Former MainOne subsidiary is streamlined into Equinix brand
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Amazon acquires leasehold on New Zealand land for Kuiper satellite venture
Company granted 20 year lease on 500 sqm of land
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2Africa subsea cable lands in Kwa Ibo, Nigeria
Second landing in Nigeria for pan-African cable
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Equinix to invest $390m in data centers in Africa
Investment will span the next five years
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MainOne launches second Cote d’Ivoire data center
Follows launch of first in 2018
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Equinix appoints Sandile Dube as managing director for South Africa
Dube responsible for launch of new IBX in Johannesburg
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Onix Data Centers expands into Dakar, Senegal
Company to offer colocation space in Cable Landing Station
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Equinix announces Johannesburg data center
Company expands into South Africa
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Equinix’s MainOne opens second Lekki data center in Nigeria
Newly acquired firm opens another data center
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Colo & Wholesale Results Q4 2021: Digital Realty, Equinix, CyrusOne, American Tower, Switch
Most of the big colo REITs continue to do well
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Equinix to acquire MainOne for $320m, expands into Africa
Colo giant to get data centers & cable landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire
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Equinix appoints Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as EMEA president
Based in the Netherlands
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Synergy: Top three colocation providers keep growing faster than the market
Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT are responsible for almost 28 percent of the worldwide colocation revenues
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Equinix to spend $39m on London campus expansion
Increasing the size of LD4 by another 30 percent
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Synergy: Data center mergers, acquisitions totaled $20bn in 2017
Digital Realty and Equinix are the big spenders
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Equinix is entering new markets in Spain and Portugal
Acquisition of Itconic will give the company five data centers on the Iberian Peninsula
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Pulsant appoints Niclas Sanfridsson as CEO
Founder Mark Howling will become a non-executive director
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Equinix opens AM4 in Amsterdam
Now, 80 percent of data in the Netherlands goes through Equinix’s facilities
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Equinix opens another data center in Frankfurt
Its sixth facility in the German network hub
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Equinix to open $190m Amsterdam tower on July 5
Eight story AM4 data center described in company blog
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Equinix launches Cloud Exchange in Dublin, Milan and Stockholm
Three more sites get on-demand fast access to cloud providers
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Equinix acquires data center business of ICT-Center Zurich
Spends less than $5 million on an adjacent property