Data centers

Fidelus Technologies, a Cisco Gold Partner for professional & managed IT services, acquires networking & security services group from Something Digital.

Iron Mountain acquires MAG Datacenters (owner of Fortrust private data centers) for $128 million; gains 9 megawatts (MW) of power capacity & 250 customers.

Oracle (ORCL) expands hybrid cloud and associated managed services directly into customers' on-premises data centers.

Gartner says overall IT spending will grow more slowly than originally expected in 2017, but business IT services is a big bright spot for MSPs, VARs.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) like Nutanix (built on virtualized servers, storage & networking) requires new types of backup, Comtrade asserts.

Digital Realty Trust Inc. (DLR) acquires data center operator DuPont Fabros Technology Inc. (DFT) for $7.6 billion. A closer look at the DLR-DFT deal.

Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey mentions HCI wins with Lenovo & Dell EMC. Will Cisco, HPE & IBM deployments emerge? And what about smaller partners?