Prominent Data Center Veteran Joins WiredRE

Earlier this week WiredRE announced the addition of Chainrai Waney as their new Regional VP and Cheif Operating Officer to support their continued national growth in 2012. It is an exciting year ahead for WiredRE, as they anticipate moving into more territories accross the US after doubling revenues in 2011. When asked about what his … Read more

Equinix Quietly Enters US Wholesale Market

If you are current on recent Equinix news, you probably noted their intent to build a 10th data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The news was noteworthy for several reasons, firstly because the new data center will be built by Digital Realty Trust (DLR), the world’s largest data center REIT. Second, the deal represents tacit acknowledgement … Read more

Cloud, Colocation, and Data Center Real Estate Analysis

With the maturation of the IT infrastructure business, solution sets for any given need have multiplied and produced an alphabet soup of viable alternatives. IaaS, Cloud, Colo, PaaS, Container, etc., all serve essentially the same need for infrastructure services. Processor level advances have solved many problems, and now bottlenecks have emerged elsewhere in the solution … Read more

Clean Room Data Center Conversions Going Mainstream

I’m often asked whether building or buying is the right path, and the answer for many firms, both now and over the last 10 years, has been to either purchase and improve or convert. Specifically, as acquiring redundant or bankrupt telecom assess becomes more difficult, clean room conversions are becoming a recognized strategy for achieving … Read more