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Cinven acquires One.com; possible European consolidator

December 29, 2018
Philbert Shih

Private equity firm Cinven acquired domain name registrar and SMB hosting provider One.com. ...

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DataBank acquires Indianapolis provider LightBound

December 28, 2018
Philbert Shih

DataBank acquired LightBound, which operates two data centres in Indianapolis. ...

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Private equity firm Inflexion takes stake in UKFast

December 28, 2018
Philbert Shih

Private equity firm Inflexion acquired a minority stake in UKFast. ...

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HgCapital acquires stake in Belgian hoster Combell Group

December 28, 2018
Philbert Shih

Private equity firm HgCapital, based in the UK and Germany, acquired a stake in Belgian hoster Combe...

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Cologix acquires COLO-D; single path to public cloud

December 27, 2018
Philbert Shih

Denver-based data centre operator Cologix acquired Montréal, Québec-based wholesale colocation s...

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Vantage buys 4Degrees data centre business in Québec; wholesale pursuing hyperscale

December 27, 2018
Philbert Shih

Vantage Data Centers in Santa Clara, CA acquired the 4Degrees colocation portfolio from Québec, Can...

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End user moving from colocation to AWS in big way

December 17, 2018
Philbert Shih

We spoke with a significant AWS end user on the technology side that shared some interesting data po...

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APAC, telcos, M&A, cloud consulting, executive shuffles

December 17, 2018
Philbert Shih

The sector moved along steadily this past week as the year begins to wind down. The week was highlig...

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ServerCentral acquires Turing Group; partner, test run and acquire

December 14, 2018
Philbert Shih

Chicago-based ServerCentral acquired Turing Group, a managed cloud consultancy. ...

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IBM, VMware add new services for cloud partnership; on-premise to cloud

December 13, 2018
Philbert Shih

IBM and VMware added new services to the partnership they have established to extend on-premise work...

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Atlantic.Net uses Veeam for backup and DR

December 13, 2018
Philbert Shih

Altantic.net partnered with Veeam to enable backup and DR services. Veeam enables both backup and re...

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Vapor IO adds former Rackspace executive to management team

December 12, 2018
Philbert Shih

Edge data centre operator Vapor IO brought in former Rackspace executive Jacques Greyling as its new...

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