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Ascent data centre outside Toronto readying more wholesale inventory

July 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to tour Ascent’s new wholesale data centre in Waterloo, about an hour outside ...

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Dreamscape in Australia acquires Singapore’s Vodien; Asia-pacific expansion

July 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

Dreamscape Networks, parent to domain registrar and hosting provider Crazy Domains in Australia, wil...

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VentraIP acquires Profound Hosting

July 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

VentraIP in Australia acquired a small SMB hoster called Profound Hosting. ...

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Plesk acquires XOVI; moving beyond control panels and infrastructure

July 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

Plesk acquired Cologne, Germany-based software provider XOVI for undisclosed amount. ...

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eStruxture brings in industry veteran as SVP product and strategy

July 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

Montreal-based eStruxture brought in former Q9 executive Strahan McCarten as SVP of product and stra...

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REAN Cloud acquires 47Lining; adding Big Data capabilities

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

REAN Cloud, a Herndon, Virginia-based SI and cloud consultancy focused on AWS, added to its capabili...

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Quick data point about demand profile in Toronto

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

We spoke with some industry people in Toronto and one of the interesting data points was about the c...

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GoDaddy sells PlusServer managed hosting business to BC Partners

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy confirmed sale of the managed hosting business PlusServer that it took over as part of its ...

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DataBank adds healthcare customer in Minneapolis

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

Hennepin County Medical Center in Minnesota recently moved into a DataBank data centre in the Minne...

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4Degrees brings online Montreal data centre

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to drop in on the 4Degrees data centre in Montreal operated by Videotron. ...

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Digital Ocean rolls out CPU-optimized instances

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

Digital Ocean has been working on increasing performance levels for its cloud instances. ...

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Cyxtera brings in executive to lead federal group

July 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

Cyxtera brought on board General Gregory J. Touhill as president of a newly created group. ...

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