Data centers

HP Enterprise's GreenLake Flex Capacity strategy features data center hardware with pay-as-you-go pricing models. Will partners & customers engage?

DC Blox acquires Infrapoint, blending a data center provider and managed hosting provider that offers private cloud services.

GTT Communications acquires Accelerated Connections (ACI) for managed networking, voice-over-IP (VoIP), and colocation services in Canadian enterprises.

VMware expects $700 million in Dell synergies for fiscal 2019 and praises partnership with data center hardware giant. But VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger declines comment about reverse merger rumors.

Recent Infomart Dallas & Oracle CloudWorld New York moves affirm Equinix remains focused on mergers, acquisitions, organic growth & partnerships despite surprise CEO change.

Cisco Systems acquires Skyport Systems for more hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technologies.

Suitors spent more than $20 billion on data center mergers and acquisitions in 2017, a big annual M&A record, according Synergy Research Group.