A bit of M&A and a couple expansions:
Accenture has made an inorganic move to axpand its data analytics capabilities. They have entered into an agreement to acquire Ookla, which is best known for its network data collection and analysis products. Accenture hopes to leverage those capabilities to better serve its service provider, hyperscale, and enterprise customer bases. Based in Seattle, Ookla is about 20 years old and brings a team of some 430 experts to the table.
Hurricane Electric’s network expansion has taken them into a new location down in South Africa. The global backbone operator has established a new point of presence in the city of Durban at Open Access Data Centres. Durban is on South Africa’s east coast, looking out on the Indian Ocean from KwaZulu-Natal province. Hurricane Electric also has locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
And Duos Technologies is diving deeper into the AI infrastructure world. They have signed a letter of intent with Hydra Host to deploy an NVIDIA GPU cluster for an unnamed leading global technology customer. It’s a 3-year partnership that is looking at annual EBITDA over $40M, and with the potential to add additional colocation revenue along the way. Duos has also elevated Doug Recker to CEO, who came in to lead their Duos Edge AI division.
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