Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired QuadraNet.
QN has been in our community for a loooong time. First mention of them was way back in 2011, when they were one of the DCs used by Kazila. ($7 for a 512MB VM on Xen…takes me back). Wow, Kazila seems to still be around.
This move adds 10 facilities to Edge Centres’ footprint in North America, including space in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, Reston, St. Louis, and Seattle.
QuadraNet was founded in 2001 but it looks like Edge Centres’ CTO, Kiarash Jahangiri will now take the reins as CEO.
“Edge Centres’ bold series of acquisitions made over the last year will now be unified under the QuadraNet brand. Stepping into the role of CEO at one of the fastest growing companies in the US data center and server market is a great privilege,” said Jahangiri, in a Datacenter Dynamics article that…
…was removed? But was caught in Google’s cache. (here, too, as of this moment).
Article is timestamped today so presumably it’s very current. I wonder why it was pulled down?
Meanwhile, head over to the discussion about the QuadraNet aquisition at LowEndTalk and share your thoughts.
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