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Acronis acquires 5nine; adds Microsoft security, management technology

January 8, 2020
Philbert Shih

Acronis acquired 5nine, a provider of cloud management and security solutions for the Microsoft plat...

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Microsoft acquires land in Chicago at Elk Grove Technology Park

January 8, 2020
Philbert Shih

Local media reporting indicates Microsoft acquired 37 acres of land in Chicago at the Elk Grove Tech...

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Atos acquires Maven Wave; pushing in managed Google Cloud

January 8, 2020
Philbert Shih

Atos acquired Chicago-based Maven Wave, a cloud infrastructure consulting firm. ...

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Alibaba Cloud raises SLA bar; technology, differentiators

January 8, 2020
Philbert Shih

Alibaba Cloud raised the bar with its cloud infrastructure SLAs. ...

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Cloudflare acquires S2 Systems

January 7, 2020
Philbert Shih

Cloudflare acquired S2 Systems, a security firm that has built browser isolation technology to provi...

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Flexential wins colocation customer in Tampa

January 7, 2020
Philbert Shih

Flexential brought on a new customer for its data centre in Tampa Bay, FLA. ...

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CVC acquires stake in WebPros; Oakley stays in

January 6, 2020
Philbert Shih

Oakley Capital sold its stake in hosting and cloud automation software provider WebPros to CVC Cap...

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Edge, AWS Local Zone, M&A, IPO

January 6, 2020
Philbert Shih

The end of the calendar year saw things slow down but there were a number of noteworthy developments...

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Carbon60 acquires Cirrus9; Canadian expansion

December 31, 2019
Philbert Shih

Carbon60, based in Toronto, acquired Cirrus9, a cloud and managed hosting provider based in Saint Jo...

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Jassy comments on Alibaba competitive dynamics

December 30, 2019
Philbert Shih

AWS CEO Andy Jassy made some interesting comments about Asian cloud rival Alibaba. ...

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SpaceDC data centre build underway in west Jakarta

December 18, 2019
Philbert Shih

We recently had a chance to briefly speak with Space DC (formerly known as Polymer Connected), an op...

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Limestone Networks uses Equinix in NY

December 18, 2019
Philbert Shih

Dallas-based bare metal hoster Limestone Networks expanded its footprint to New York. ...

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