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HostPapa acquires LFC Hosting; more SMB consolidation

June 15, 2021
Philbert Shih

Toronto’s HostPapa acquired another SMB hoster in Canada. ...

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Expedient continues evolution to manage multi-cloud and hybrid world

June 15, 2021
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to speak with management at Pittsburgh-based data centre operator and MSP Expedient ...

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Strattam Capital takes stake in AWS shop CloudHesive

June 15, 2021
Philbert Shih

Strattam Capital took a stake in Florida-based AWS shop CloudHesive. ...

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Colony Capital, Digital Colony re-brand as DigitalBridge

June 14, 2021
Philbert Shih

Colony Capital, parent of Digital Colony, re-branded to DigitalBridge. ...

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M&A, data centre, CDN, hyperscale, global expansion, Europe

June 14, 2021
Philbert Shih

It was a busy week as the sector did not skip a beat coming out of public holidays in the UK, US and...

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1547 Realty, Valterra Partners acquire Miami-based operator ColoHouse

June 11, 2021
Philbert Shih

Valterra Partners and 1547 Critical Systems Realty partnered up to acquire Miami-based ColoHouse. ...

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Accenture acquires Australian cloud, DevOps specialist Industrie&Co

June 11, 2021
Philbert Shih

Accenture acquired Industrie&Co, an Australia-based cloud and DevOps consultancy with offices in...

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Operators seeing pipelines open up amid developing recovery

June 10, 2021
Philbert Shih

A number of providers we have spoken to in the last weeks – across colocation and managed host...

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Cyxtera reports 1Q21 results; stabilization in place with right directional trends

June 9, 2021
Philbert Shih

Cyxtera disclosed its 1Q21 results in advance of its entry into the public markets through a pending...

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A2 Hosting rolls out bare metal server line targeted at SMBs

June 9, 2021
Philbert Shih

Michigan-based A2 Hosting rolled out a new line of bare metal servers. ...

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Fastly CDN outage traced back to configuration; outsized impact raises questions

June 9, 2021
Philbert Shih

Fastly’s CDN suffered an outage that brought major websites and applications down such as Redd...

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ServerCentral re-brands as Deft as evolution continues

June 8, 2021
Philbert Shih

ServerCentral, also known more recently as ServerCentral Turing Group, re-branded to Deft. ...

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