vCORE Technology Partners has been acquired by AHEAD, a provider of enterprise cloud services. The purchase will help AHEAD expand its foothold in the U.S. Southwest, a process that began in 2020 with the acquisition of systems integrator Kovarus. AHEAD Continues Strategic Expansion, Buys vCORE Technology Partners
vCORE Technology Partners has been acquired by AHEAD, a provider of enterprise cloud services. The purchase will help AHEAD expand its foothold in the U.S. Southwest, a process that began in 2020 with the acquisition of systems integrator Kovarus. 
The lab verification of a 200G+ large-capacity transmission system was jointly accomplished by China Telecom and Huawei. It would give crucial technical assistance for the development of a next-generation long-haul, high-capacity transmission infrastructure. 
International colocation data center operator Switch has announced that its Colocation Services Management Systems, which include the Switch Living Data Center, C-Cure, and Honeywell Badge Access Systems, have been awarded HITRUST Certified accreditation for information security. 
Iron Mountain has selected ClearTrace’s carbon accounting platform to provide hourly energy and carbon analysis for all of its data centers across the United States. 
Major worldwide web hosting and cloud service provider for small and medium enterprises (SMBs), HostPapa, has acquired web hosting company Osiris Communications. 
OVHcloud’s consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2022 was €187 million, up 13.9 percent compared to Q1 FY2021. The year-over-year increase in revenue in Q1 would represent a strong commercial performance. 
Mangata Networks has raised $33 million in a Series A round headed by Playground Global, a venture capital firm located in the United States. 
Digerati Technologies, a cloud services provider specializing in the delivery of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) solutions for SMBs across the U.S., has completed the acquisition of SkyNet Telecom. 
Scala Data Centers has commenced construction of two new data centers in Brazil, SP4 and SP5. These new hyperscale facilities are strategically positioned in the heart of the company’s complex in Barueri, São Paulo. 
Vultr has announced intentions to significantly expand its worldwide footprint, beginning with the opening of a new cloud data center in São Paulo, Brazil. 
Telstra is nearly tripling its footprint at a key data center in Ashburn, Virginia, in order to significantly expand its network infrastructure in the United States. 
AWS has announced the introduction of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in key locations across the world at its annual re:Invent conference last week. 
Telia Carrier has deployed a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) at Digital Realty’s Richardson, TX data center campus to expand Telia’s reach inside Digital Realty’s global PlatformDIGITAL. 
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform provider PacketFabric has released support for inter-region and multi-cloud routing across North America and EMEA. 
Bluebird Network has opened a network Pointy-of-Presence (PoP) in the Hunt Midwest SubTropolis Technology Center (STC) in Kansas City, Missouri. 
Tencent Cloud has officially opened its first Internet Data Center (IDC) in Brazil, in São Paulo to be specific. 
Global data center colocation provider Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to DISH in support of their cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the United States. 
Bluebird Network, a communications infrastructure provider with 10,000 route miles of fiber and two data centers, has announced the launch of a new and diversified fiber channel in the Midwest in the U.S. - over the Mississippi River between Hannibal, Missouri and Quincy, Illinois. 
New and existing clients in key markets in the United States and Canada may now take advantage of a new product offer, Shielded Internet Access from Zayo Group. 
Hyland is now utilizing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region to meet the rising demand for Hyland Cloud content services solutions. 
