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The Third Annual Texas Data Center Summit will be held October 6-7, 2015 at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel in Dallas.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. and Telx have announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Digital Realty will acquire Telx from private equity firms ABRY Partners and Berkshire Partners in a transaction valued at $1.886 billion.

Equinix, Inc. has announced that the company has experienced tremendous growth in the number of enterprise customers accessing Azure in Equinix's International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data centers around the globe.

Reports.com has added a Global Containerized Data Center Market 2015-2019 research report that forecasts a 20.91% CAGR for the market highlighting introduction of containerized green data center as one of the key industry trends.

Facebook has announced that Fort Worth, TX, will be the home for its next data center.

Uptime Institute recently awarded Israel’s largest financial institution, Bank Hapoalim, Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility for its ROTEM data center.

Skanska USA has announced that Michael Silla has joined the company as senior vice president of its Mission Critical Center of Excellence (COE), which focuses on best practices for building and upgrading all types of data center facilities.

Globalstar, Inc. has announced that it has awarded a contract to technology company Yippy, Inc. to provide private cloud data services utilizing Globalstar’s satellite network and devices.

New data by IHS reveals that 8.0% of three-phase, transformer-based power distribution units (PDU) sold into the Americas in 2014 had a distribution voltage of 400 VAC, accounting for $13.9 million of the $155.1 million American PDU market.

With 10% growth over the same period last year, contracted floor space in multi-tenant data centers (MTDC) now totals 3.7 million square meters, with the biggest share of space found in London, Tokyo, the New York Metro area, and Virginia, according to a new report from IHS.