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Flexential Continues its Expansion, Targeting Hybrid Enterprise Solutions

By Rich Miller - February 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

The exterior of the Flexential data center facility near Nashville. (Photo: Flexential)

Flexential CEO Chris Downie says recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will bring a sharper focus on hybrid IT, Flexential aims to use its growing portfolio of services and markets to help enterprise customers sort out a complex IT landscape

Tagged With: Dallas, Enterprise, Flexential, Hybrid cloud, hybrid IT, Portland

News Roundup: Park Place, Vapor IO, Flexential

By Rich Miller - November 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

Park Place Technologies CEO Chris Adams announces his company's acquisition of Curvature. (Image: Park Place)

The steady stream of new about the data center industry continues. This week: third-party maintenance specialist Park Place Technologies acquires Curvature, Hivelocity expands its bare metal edge with Vapor IO, and Flexential adds capacity in its Atlanta data center.

Tagged With: Flexential, park place technologies, Vapor IO

Development Update: T5, Stack, Flexential, Vantage, Iron Mountain

By Rich Miller - October 9, 2020 2 Comments

The groundbreaking at STACK Infrastructure's newest campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Photo: STACK Infrastructure)

Data center developers continue to deploy more capacity, as the digital economy races to keep pace with demand for more capacity due to pandemic-driven societal shifts. Here’s a roundup of this week’s development and finance news.

Tagged With: Flexential, Iron Mountain, Stack Infrastructure, T5 Data Centers, Vantage Data Centers

The Business Edge Emerges: Deals Highlight Growing Investment in Edge Computing

By Rich Miller - September 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

Edge computing deals and deployments span the range of digital infrastructure, from racks and modules to data center halls. (Images: American Tower, Vapor IO, Equinix and Amazon)

The Business Edge is drawing closer, as seen in a flurry of announcements that showcase the many ways stakeholders in distributed computing are stepping up their investment and deploying real-world edge infrastructure.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, American Tower, Edge Computing, Equinix, Flexential, Vapor IO, Verizon

Flexential Expands With New Data Center in Atlanta’s ‘Transaction Alley’

By Rich Miller - May 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Financial services is a target market for Flexential as it adds capacity in Atlanta’s “Transaction Alley” in the latest phase of a broader expansion of its national footprint.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Flexential, Wholesale

Flexential Sees Wholesale Opportunity in Portland and Beyond

By Rich Miller - September 11, 2018 Leave a Comment

A look at data hall being prepared at the Flexential Brookwood data center near Portland. The hall is part of the 115,000 square foot expansion of the facility. (Photo: Flexential)

Flexential has expanded into the market for wholesale data center space, and begun expanding its facilities, including a 115,000 SF addition in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Tagged With: Flexential, Portland

Peak 10 Becomes Flexential, Eyes Major Markets

By Rich Miller - January 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Flexential Lone Mountain data center near Las Vegas. (Photo: Flexential)

Peak 10 has become Flexential, adopting a new name as it seeks to establish a national brand following its $1.7 billion acquisition of ViaWest.

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Peak 10 + ViaWest Acquires Data Center in Philadelphia Market

By Rich Miller - November 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

TThe exterior of the new Flexential facility in the Philadelphia market. (Photo: Flexential)

Peak 10 + ViaWest is continuing to expand, pushing into the Northeast with the acquisition of a data center in the Philadelphia market.

Tagged With: Flexential, Peak 10, Philadelphia, ViaWest

At Peak 10, Larger Ambitions and Larger Data Centers

By Rich Miller - May 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

The newest Peak 10 data center in Nashville, which has a larger footprint than many earlier builds. (Photo: Peak 10)

With new leadership, Peak 10 is looking beyond its home markets in the Southeast and ready to begin building a national data center footprint.

Tagged With: Flexential, Peak 10, Southeast

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