Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners is receiving a $350 million preferred equity investment from Landmark Partners in part to diversify its holdings • The firm currently owns a majority stake in data center company Cologix and a preferred equity stake in an owner of energy pipelines • The capital will give the firm flexibility to make investments beyond the limits set in its current funds, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg […]
Data center provider Aligned Energy has named Phil Lawson-Shanks its chief development officer • The top connectivity expert joins Aligned after five years at EdgeConneX • Drawn by Aligned unique business model, enabled by its data center design, he appears to have been tapped to boost the company’s connectivity play […]
Qualcomm's once promising challenge to Intel in the data center market is all but finished, Bloomberg News reported • The effort's main backer, Paul Jacobs, has been ousted from the company • Various takeover attempts of the data center unit have failed • Almost half of the unit's engineers have gone, some of them now working for competitor Amper […]
If AI is a necessity for consumer personalization and legal compliance, why aren’t banks everywhere simply investing and deploying it? […]
It is immediately incumbent on any company with a digital business, or aspirations toward creating one, to implement an interconnection strategy. […]
Data center technology veteran Jason Carolan shares his perspective on changes in the industry. […]
We spent a good part of August exploring two big drivers behind network innovation: speed and automation. Here’s what we learned. […]
Oracle reported fiscal first quarter sales that fell short of analysts' estimates • Its efforts to make software sold as cloud services central to its business appear to continue stumbling, Bloomberg News reported • Cloud services and license support revenue gained 3.2 percent, but maintenance fees for on-prem software are likely responsible for a large portion of the total • Cloud license and on-premises license sales declined 3 percent to $867 million […]