Author Archive

GoDaddy acquires Sucuri; enhancing security

March 24, 2017
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy acquired a company called Sucuri, a provider of website security products and services. ...

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Packet releases data points about growth

March 22, 2017
Philbert Shih

New York-based Packet recently raised $9.4m from SoftBank and put out some data points about its rec...

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US Dedicated expands with CoreSite in New York

March 22, 2017
Philbert Shih

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Salesforce expands to Australia on back of AWS cloud

March 21, 2017
Philbert Shih

Last year, Salesforce partnered up with AWS and committed to $400m in spend over a four-year period....

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HOSTING acquires Stelligent Systems to augment managed AWS practice

March 21, 2017
Philbert Shih

HOSTING in Denver acquired Stelligent Systems, an AWS consulting, managed services and delivery mana...

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CloudCheckr raises $50m in Series A round; service providers use

March 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

CloudCheckr, a Rochester, New York-based cloud management platform, raised $50m in a Series A round...

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American Airlines moving more to IBM cloud

March 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

American Airlines, an IBM Cloud user, confirmed it is in the midst of moving more workloads to IBM C...

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SingleHop adds managed AWS to third party cloud portfolio; application-centric

March 20, 2017
Philbert Shih

SingleHop rolled out its managed AWS service called Service First Support. AWS is the second cloud i...

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Data point on the MSP, VAR transition to cloud and hosted services

March 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

Came across an interesting data point that speaks to where the traditional IT world is when it comes...

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Massive-scale clouds, M&A, Google, managed third party cloud

March 19, 2017
Philbert Shih

It was a somewhat slower week, though there was yet more activity around massive-scale clouds. Googl...

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Google, Veritas expand partnership; prioritizing data management

March 16, 2017
Philbert Shih

Google expanded the scope of its partnership with Veritas with an eye to enhancing its overall data ...

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Faction shares growth data points; secures patents

March 16, 2017
Philbert Shih

Faction shared some data points about its progress in 2016 and successfully received patents for it...

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