Infomart Dallas

Infomart Dallas — the company founded in 1985 developing one of the world's largest information processing centers which uses technology of interconnections of DPCs.

2018: Equinix buys Infomart Dallas 

In February, 2018 the Equinix company which at that time had most of all data centers in the world, announced purchase of Infomart Dallas  for $800 million.

Under the terms of the agreement, Equinix gets access to all transactions and clients of Infomart Dallas (service providers of a collocation of DPCs, operators of networks and tenants of office spaces) to strengthen the global platform.

Infomart Dallas building

Merger of Infomart will allow the existing and new clients to scale the activity thanks to Equinix — the president of the American representative office of Equinix Karl Strohmeyer says. — This transaction includes a rich portfolio of options of internetwork connection, including connections on demand to partners and infrastructure in any place of presence of Equinix around the world thanks to new opportunities of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric.

The top manager added that with purchase of Infomart Dallas from Equinix there will be four large assets, and the repeating revenue will increase more than by 45%. It is going to close the transaction to the middle of 2018.

According to the CRN edition on February 15, 2018, Equinix expanded recently possibilities of the platform of interconnections which connects about 200 data centers of the company and services of the partners connected to the Equinix Cloud Exchange platform. Thanks to the last company can look for and be connected to other clients of Equinix within any location. Equinix is present at 48 markets (data for February, 2018).

Purchase of Infomart Dallas became the first acquisition of Equinix in 2018 after active the 2017th when the American giant concluded bargains for billions of dollars.^[1]

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