{"id":33057,"date":"2018-01-03T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2018\/jan\/03\/data-centre-2017-m-deals-beat-2015-and-2016-combined-totals-says-synergy-research\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:46:57","slug":"data-centre-2017-ma-deals-beat-2015-and-2016-combined-totals-says-synergy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/data-centre-2017-ma-deals-beat-2015-and-2016-combined-totals-says-synergy-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centre 2017 M&A deals beat 2015 and 2016 combined totals, says Synergy Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The appetite for data centre deals in 2017 increased dramatically, with 48 transactions at $20 billion overall, according to Synergy Research.<\/p>\n

The total surpasses those of 2015 and 2016 combined, which produced 45 deals – 28 in 2016 and 17 in 2015 – at just over $15bn. What’s more, Synergy adds, 2018 will start with $2.6bn of deals which have been agreed but are yet to close. In this category, for instance, would be Equinix’s planned acquisition of data centre provider Metronode for $1.035bn AUD (£594m), announced in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Equinix is, alongside Digital Realty, the largest investor in the space. A deal which ran into this year having been announced in December 2016<\/a> was the buying of 29 data centres from Verizon for $3.6 billion. Excluding Metronode, between 2015 and 2017 Equinix and Digital Realty have made acquisitions totalling $19 billion between them, with the former focusing on a global strategy and the latter concentrating on the US and Europe.<\/p>\n

Digital Realty spent the most on one deal in 2017, its $7.6bn acquisition of DuPont Fabros. In comparison, the largest acquisition in 2015 and 2016 was Equinix buying TelecityGroup for $3.8bn.<\/p>\n

John Dinsdale, research director and a chief analyst at Synergy Research, said the shift was being driven by enterprises giving less priority to owning data centre assets – the Verizon case being a good example – and more priority to improving their IT capabilities.<\/p>\n

“That shift is driving huge growth in outsourcing, whether it is via cloud services, or use of colocation facilities, or sale and leaseback of data centres,” said Dinsdale, adding: “The dramatic growth of cloud providers is also driving changes in the data centre industry, as data centre operators strive to help them rapidly increase scale and global footprint.<\/p>\n

“We expect to see much more data centre M&A over the next five years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The appetite for data centre deals in 2017 increased dramatically, with 48 transactions at $20 billion overall, according to Synergy Research.
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