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Amazon acquires Do.com to enhance unified communications platform

March 15, 2017
Philbert Shih

Amazon Web Services acquired a young startup called Do.com that had raised close to $2.5m. ...

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Cloudability acquires CloudMGR; expands to ANZ

March 14, 2017
Philbert Shih

Portland, Oregon-based cloud cost optimization platform Cloudability acquired Brisbane, Australia-ba...

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Microsoft set to roll out Slack-like collaboration tool

March 14, 2017
Philbert Shih

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Datapipe wins managed third party cloud deal

March 14, 2017
Philbert Shih

Datapipe was selected by ANNA for a managed AWS deployment. ...

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Digital Ocean extends LBs to Singapore

March 14, 2017
Philbert Shih

Digital Ocean extended its new load balancer capability to the Singapore data centre location. ...

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CenturyLink rolls out Cloud Application Manager; single platform, all kinds of clouds

March 13, 2017
Philbert Shih

CenturyLink rolled out Cloud Application Manager, a platform that enables organizations to deploy, m...

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Clouds, third party cloud, transactions, expansions

March 13, 2017
Philbert Shih

It was another busy week across the sector, with a significant amount of activity happening around t...

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GoDaddy reports 4Q16 and 2016 results; steady progress

March 10, 2017
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy reported its 4Q16 and 2016 results, which showed steady revenue growth and upticks in relev...

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Google acquires AppBridge; more tools to aid uptake

March 10, 2017
Philbert Shih

Google acquired a young Vancouver-based startup called AppBridge. ...

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NetApp brings on SVP of cloud business unit

March 9, 2017
Philbert Shih

NetApp named Anthony Lye as SVP of its cloud business unit. ...

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Endurance expands Constant Contact email marketing platform to India

March 9, 2017
Philbert Shih

Constant Contact, the email marketing SaaS service acquired by Endurance International late in 2015,...

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Google’s cloud head points to channel, support functions

March 9, 2017
Philbert Shih

Diane Greene, SVP of cloud at Google, made some interesting public comments in media interviews. ...

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