July 29, 2011 — Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign announced on Thursday via its quarterly earnings report that CEO Mark McLaughlin is resigning and company founder will return to CEO duties. McLaughlin joined the company in 2000 and has served in the position of CEO for the past two years. VeriSign said that McLaughlin is leaving the company to become CEO of an unnamed private company.
Updates from July, 2011
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VeriSign CEO Resigns Founder and Chairman Resumes CEO Duties
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euNetworks Acquires German Connectivity Provider TeraGate
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July 29, 2011 — Fiber-optic network infrastructure provider euNetworks Group announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition of German-based corporate WAN provider TeraGate. euNetworks says this acquisition is a “natural addition” following the LambdaNet acquisition in May, with an enterprise customer base primarily in the German market. Colocation firm LambdaNet has 25 data centers across Germany.
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Communications Software Firm 4PSA Releases Business Zone API for Provisioning Licensing
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July 29, 2011 — Cloud computing software developer 4PSA announced on Thursday it has released Business Zone API, a REST based web service that partners can use to access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses. The move comes just a few weeks after 4PSA launched its new developer resource website.
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Tier1 Report Finds Emerging Data Center Markets Ripe with Acquisition Opportunities
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July 29, 2011 — Research group Tier1 Research recently released the second iteration of its North American Multi-Tenant Data Center Supply: Emerging Major Markets report for 2011. The study finds that the 14 major North American markets have a utilization rate of approximately 79 percent.
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Stream Sells 150K Square Foot Data Center in San Antonio
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July 29, 2011 — Data center operator Stream Data Centers announced on Tuesday it has sold its San Antonio data center to an unnamed “Fortune 100 Corporation”. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The 150,000-square-foot data center is located on 33 acres in Westover Hills in San Antonio.
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CA Technologies Acquires SaaS Monitoring Firm WatchMouse
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July 29, 2011 — Management software and solutions provider CA Technologies announced on Friday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held SaaS-based monitoring firm WatchMouse. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to the press release, WatchMouse uses a globally-distributed infrastructure of more than 60 monitoring stations in more than 40 countries.
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Data Center Firm The Bunker Provides CNS Security Compliance Services
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July 28, 2011 — UK web hosting and data center provider The Bunker announced on Thursday it has partnered with IT security provider CNS to offer its COMPLIANCEngine and payment card industry compliance services alongside The Bunker’s data centers. The move comes a few months after The Bunker completed a $3.2 million power upgrade project at its data center in Ash, Kent.
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Google Launches Page Speed CDN Service
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July 28, 2011 — Google announced on Thursday that it has released its Page Speed Service, a hosted solution that automatically speeds up loading of web pages. Also on Thursday, the Senate’s anti-trust panel scheduled a hearing titled, ‘The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?’ for mid-September. The US Federal Trade Commission will look into complaints from Google’s rivals that allege it abuses its market dominance.
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Telecommunications Firm Pacnet Building LEED Data Center in Hong Kong
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July 28, 2011 — Telecommunications provider Pacnet announced on Thursday it has invested in a new Data Landing Station in Hong Kong, with direct high-speed connectivity into Pacnet’s pan-Asian subsea cable network. The move comes more than a year after Pacnet announced it would make a $300 million investment to build a data center network in Asia.
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Zayo Begins Los Angeles Fiber Network Construction to Support CoreSite Connectivity
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July 28, 2011 — Colocation provider Zayo announced on Thursday that it has begun construction on its fiber network in Los Angeles to support data center connectivity for CoreSite Realty Corporation. This announcement comes a month after CoreSite announced that global IP carrier TeliaSonera International Carrier established a PoP at its LA data center.
