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CyrusOne’s Next Chapter: Building Strategic Scale for Cloud Runways

By Rich Miller - April 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

The CyrusOne San Antonio II data center. The company says it has just built a third data center on adjacent land. (Photo: Rich Miller)

CyrusOne CEO Dave Ferdman says the company will look to accelerate growth under its new owners, investment firms KKR and GIP. Going private will allow CyrusOne to invest for the long term, and seek “strategic scale” in large markets to provide runway for customer growth.

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CyrusOne Becomes a Private Company as $15 Billion Buyout is Completed

By Rich Miller - March 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

A massive CyrusOne data center in Sterling, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data center developer CyrusOne is now a private company after completing its $15 billion sale to investment firms KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners. Here’s a look at what the deal means for CyrusOne and the data center industry.

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KKR, GIP to Acquire CyrusOne in Blockbuster $15 Billion Deal

By Rich Miller - November 15, 2021

Investment giants KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners will acquire data center developer CyrusOne for $15 billion, taking the company private in the largest M&A deal in the history of the data center sector.

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KKR Puts $1 Billion Behind New Data Center Development Platform

By Rich Miller - May 28, 2020

KKR is the latest marquee investing firm to enter the data center industry, forming Global Technical Realty (GTR) to develop more than $2.5 billion in data centers across Europe in the coming years.

Tagged With: Europe, Global Technical Realty, KKR

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Understanding the Importance of Power Quality in the Data Center

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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