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SHI International shares data point on managed AWS business

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

SHI International, a provider of IT products and services, shared an interesting data point about it...

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Samsung Heavy Industries uses AWS cloud

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

Samsung Heavy Industries chose to build on the AWS cloud. ...

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GoDaddy administrative error on AWS causes data breach

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

Multiple media outlets confirmed that potentially sensitive internal and customer data on 31k GoDadd...

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TransIP acquires IT-Ernity in The Netherlands; more consolidation in Dutch market

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

Dutch hoster TransIP acquired fellow Dutch provider IT-Ernity. ...

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Google said to be looking at China partnership for cloud

August 14, 2018
Philbert Shih

Media outlets report that Google has been in talks with China-based companies in pursuit of a partne...

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AWS adds to EC2 cloud compute family

August 14, 2018
Philbert Shih

AWS added more EC2 instance sizes that are geared to memory-intensive applications. ...

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Earnings, edge data centres, devices, M&A, cloud consultancies

August 13, 2018
Philbert Shih

Earnings season is in full swing and we took a close look at numbers coming from a number of compani...

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Hitachi Ventara acquires REAN Cloud; adds public cloud skill set

August 10, 2018
Philbert Shih

Hitachi IT and managed services services subsidiary Hitachi Ventara has agreed to acquire REAN Cloud...

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AWS gaming customer all-in and expanding through value-add

August 10, 2018
Philbert Shih

AWS disclosed a customer on the gaming side that has gone all-in 0n AWS and expanded its use of the ...

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Netgain Technology acquires Afinety; adds another vertical specialization

August 9, 2018
Philbert Shih

Netgain Technology in St. Cloud Minnesota acquired a company called Afinety, a provider of cloud and...

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eHosting DataFort acquires LiveRoute; adds application, cloud capabilities

August 9, 2018
Philbert Shih

Dubai-based eHosting DataFort acquired LiveRoute, a cloud consultancy focused on the Microsoft platf...

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Maxihost chooses to deploy Ubersmith

August 9, 2018
Philbert Shih

Brazil-based hoster and colocation provider Maxihost chose to deploy the Ubersmith management platfo...

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