M&A, Africa, APAC, supply chains, subscale cloud
The sector continues to move forward coming out of the holiday break and there has hardly been a lull on the M&A side of things.
Transactions continue to have a global flavour and Digital Realty made another move in Africa, picking up South African data centre operator Teraco. Other deals running back into December include Carlyle Group acquiring Involta, IPI Partners acquiring a connectivity-oriented data centre in Denver and new entrant Empyrion DC acquiring Singapore’s Dodid. Meanwhile, Cologix re-capitalized, 11:11 bought iland, Cloudflare acquired more technology, 365 Data Centers secured more funding and Citizens Financial Group acquired DH Capital.
Moving into 2022, a question on everyone’s mind is how the pandemic will play out? Will it recede and come to a relative conclusion or will it persist? One thing that looks to remain in place, whichever direction the pandemic goes, is the disruption in the global supply chain. There has been some impact on infrastructure providers, but the issues have also created new opportunities. We have more details.
Elsewhere, on the cloud and hosting side, things continue to evolve. Google Cloud’s continued growth has resulted in more business for service providers managing public clouds and the subscale cloud category continues to gain momentum. Vultr is pushing its footprint globally and recently shared details about its progress.
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