CBRE Group, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Romonet Limited, a leading advanced analytics software company which provides technology and consulting services for large global data center operators.

The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™) and the OpenFog Consortium® (OpenFog) have announced that they have finalized the details to combine the two largest and most influential international consortia in Industrial IoT, fog, and edge computing.

DataBank has announced the acquisition of PNC Bank’s data center located in North Fayette Township near Pittsburgh, PA.

GI Partners continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington.

Vantage Data Centers has announced it has finalized its acquisition of Canada-based 4Degrees Colocation from Videotron Ltd., a Quebecor Media Inc. (QMI) subsidiary, for approximately US$200 million (CA$259 million).

EdgeConneX® has announced that it has acquired strategic data center assets at Landsberger Strasse 155, Central Munich, Germany.

CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”) have announced the acquisition of 1 Ramland Road in Orangeburg, New York, an existing 232,000-sq-ft data center, previously owned by an affiliate of 1547.

Bluebird Network, LLC, (“Bluebird” or the “Company”) a Midwest telecommunications company, is being acquired by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (“MIP”) for an undisclosed amount.

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the number of significant data center-oriented M&A deals continued to climb in 2018, though the total value of deals that closed in the year dropped off from its 2017 peak.