Mergers and Acquisitions News • Equinix to Buy Telecity for $4.1 Billion. U.S. data centre company Equinix Inc said on Friday it had agreed to buy British peer Telecity Group in a deal worth 2.35 billion pounds ($3.60 billion), creating the largest data centre player in Europe. Equinix said the deal would see each Telecity […]
Recent Mergers & Acquisitions News in Hosting and Colocation
Engine Yard Buys Open Source Cloud Platform OpDemand. Engine Yard, a startup that offers a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) which cloud developers can use to build and run apps, acquired OpDemand, a startup that created open-source PaaS tool Deis. According to OpDemand CTO and Deis creator Gabriel Monroy, “By joining forces with Engine Yard, Deis will continue […]
Public Equity Performance and Valuation 2/2/15 Update
Public Equity Performance Since the end of 2014, there has been quite a bit of volatility the US public equity markets. During that time, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 3.1% and 2.1%, respectively. That being said, since the end of 2014, the average colocation and hosting equity has outperformed both the S&P 500 and […]
Recent Deals in Hosting, Technology and Colocation
Acquisition News Bytemark Buys Derby, UK Web Hosting Company Swordfish. According to the York Press, Bytemark, a York, UK web hosting company named as one of the Top 50 fastest growing technology companies in the north is accelerating its expansion with the completion of its first acquisition. Bytemark, which hosts internet servers and cloud hosting […]
Public Equity Performance and Valuation in Hosting and Colocation
Public Equity Performance Since the end of 2014, there has been quite a bit of volatility the US public equity markets. During that time, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have declined 3.2% and 3.5%, respectively. That being said, since the end of 2014, last quarter, and last month, the average colocation and hosting equity has […]
