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United Internet takes minority stake in marketing platform rankingCoach

March 28, 2017
Philbert Shih

Cologne, Germany-based rankingCoach, an online marketing platform used by hosters to serve SMB custo...

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Cloud, managed third party cloud, SMB, data centres and expansions

March 27, 2017
Philbert Shih

It was another busy week highlighted by significant activity around data centres and a number of str...

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Edge releases managed AWS service

March 24, 2017
Philbert Shih

Edge in Baltimore released its managed AWS service that it has been working on since last year. ...

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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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