Is data gravity drawing data centers nearer to interconnection hubs in major markets, or will a new architecture emerge around massive cloud campuses in remote locations? Digital Realty and CyrusOne offer different takes.
CyrusOne
CyrusOne aims to be “the sky for the cloud” and is building massive data halls to reach that goal. They focus on quickly building hyperscale data centers to meet the growing data needs of enterprise cloud services and IoT.
Headquarters: Dallas, TX
Web: https://cyrusone.com/
CyrusOne Earns Investment Grade Credit Rating
CyrusOne has become the third public data center company to receive an investment grade credit rating, which will lower its borrowing costs and improve its profitability, the company said.
CyrusOne Shares Jump Amid Takeover Rumors
Shares of data center developer CyrusOne jumped Friday following media reports that the company has received takeover interest from private investors.
The Enterprise IT Migration Gains Momentum, Boosting Data Centers
Public data center providers reported strong momentum from enterprise customers in the second quarter, as corporations re-align their IT operations.
Frontier Spotlight: Top Data Center Stories for April 2019
Data Center Frontier’s most-read stories in April included news on how new fire codes could impact UPS design, a tower REIT entering the colocation fray, and our series looking at the Denver data center market.
Where Fields Become Clouds: The CyrusOne Approach to Speed and Scale
The growth of the CyrusOne Phoenix campus demonstrates why the company has been a pioneer in the rapid growth of the data center industry, advancing new ways of building at speed and scale. Its next phase of growth will target European markets.
CyrusOne Preps 144-Megawatt Santa Clara Campus With On-Site Power
CyrusOne has begun construction on a 144-megawatt data center campus in Santa Clara, which will feature on-site power generation. The project will be the first for CyrusOne in Silicon Valley.
Ashburn: A Landscape Transformed by Cloud Computing
An unprecedented data center building boom in Northern Virginia offers early lessons on how the Internet knits itself into the fabric of modern life, and how data centers impact the life of a community.
CyrusOne Keeps Building, Acquiring New Site in Northern Virginia
CyrusOne continues to expand its footprint in the strategic Northern Virginia data center market. The company has acquired land for a new campus in Sterling.
CyrusOne, H5 Bring More Data Centers to Quincy
The data center market in Quincy, Washington has two new entrants: CyrusOne is preparing a data center campus, while H5 Data Centers has acquired a former Intuit facility.
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