Carter Validus Mission Critial REIT II, Inc., has announced that the company has acquired the Andover Datacenter II that houses Navisite’s datacenter. The acquired datacenter has 153,000 square foot of space. Carter Validus Mission critical REIT II paid $37 million dollars for the facility. An unnamed weather and forecasting organization is also a tenant of […]
WiredTree has been sold to Liquid Web. If you were not sure about ordering a VPS or dedicated server from WiredTree or Liquid Web then you don’t need to worry anymore. WiredTree is now owned by Liquid Web. There is no official word from Liquid Web or WiredTree at this time. Email from CEO of […]
Elegant Jubilee Limited has agreed to acquire 49% of Global Switch for $2.9 billion dollars. Global Switch is a large multinational datacenter operator. Elegant Jubilee Limited is an investment company made of several different investors. The investment into Global Switch values the whole company at $6 billion dollars. Equinix a major Global Switch competitor has […]
The parent company of 1&1 Internet, United Internet, has acquired Strato, a web hosting and domain registration provider. The acquisition of Strato is the latest known deal in the web hosting industry. United Internet will be adding a number of new customers, a new brand, and access to more talent after the closing of the […]
Equinix has announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire 24 datacenters from Verizon for $3.6 billion dollars. After this transaction is over Equinix will increase their presence worldwide with the addition of these datacenters to the company’s own. Equinix is already known as the go-to datacenter operator if a web host […]
GoDaddy has acquired on demand technical support service WP Curve. WP Curve provides WordPress administrators with on demand fixes when issues arises. WP Curve also provides marketing support in addition to technical support for WordPress administrators. The addition of WP Curve’s products and services to GoDaddy will increase the different number of WordPress offerings by […]
GoDaddy has announced that the domain registration giant will pay $1.79 billion dollars for Host Europe Group (HEG). The transaction is expected to close by the second quarter of next year. With the acquisition of HEG, GoDaddy will gain a major web hosting presence in Europe. GoDaddy will acquire over 1.7 million additional customers from […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now order DDoS protection from Amazon. The new anti-DDoS service is called AWS Shield. The service will only protect content and assets that are hosted on AWS services. AWS will offer two tiers of AWS Shield. Amazon will provide its existing AWS customers with a basic version of the […]
Amazon’s AWS unit has launched a new product line called Lightsail. Lightsail is pretty much a virtual private service (VPS) product offering. Starting at $5 dollars per month for 512 MB of memory, 1 vCPU, 20 GB of SSD storage, and 1 TB of data transfer. Other plans include $10, $20, $40, and $80 per […]
Oracle has announced that the software giant has acquired managed domain name service (DNS) provider Dyn. Dyn is one of the most popular and well known managed DNS providers on the Internet today. With the acquisition of Dyn, Oracle should be able to improve its managed DNS offering. Existing Dyn customers will probably be introduced […]