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ROOT to build second wholesale data centre; raises $25m from ABRY, new CEO

May 26, 2016
Philbert Shih

ROOT Data Center will build a second data centre in the Montreal area and expand its existing LaSall...

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Massive-scale cloud numbers support optimism for wholesale colocation

May 26, 2016
Philbert Shih

We recently published our market share report on massive-scale cloud and project a 61.3% CAGR for 20...

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Telco carve outs of data centres still going to be on the table

May 26, 2016
Philbert Shih

Increasingly on the table these days are the possible telco divestures of data centre and hosting as...

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Interoute lights up second APAC cloud node in Singapore

May 25, 2016
Philbert Shih

Interoute brought online a cloud infrastructure node in Singapore. ...

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TriCore, BV Investment Partners take stake in REAN Cloud; building cloud on-ramp

May 25, 2016
Philbert Shih

TriCore and its private equity investor BV Investment Partners will take a stake in REAN Cloud, an A...

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GoDaddy acquires FreedomVoice for $42m; adds telephony platform

May 25, 2016
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy acquired hosted VoIP provider FreedomVoice. ...

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Canadian Web Hosting adds to Canada-focused cloud portfolio

May 24, 2016
Philbert Shih

Canadian Web Hosting released its customized cloud servers, which allow customers to basically build...

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Carbon60 reveals growth numbers; expands management team

May 24, 2016
Philbert Shih

Privately held Carbon60, based in Toronto, revealed data points that point to its current growth tra...

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Mimeo data points on operating efficiency with Google Apps

May 24, 2016
Philbert Shih

Digital printing company Mimeo switched to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange back in 2010. ...

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Salesforce to expand relationship with AWS; analytics, not just infrastructure

May 24, 2016
Philbert Shih

Salesforce.com confirmed on its earnings call that it had entered into a larger strategic partnershi...

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LayerOnline builds backup service on S3

May 24, 2016
Philbert Shih

Toronto-based LayerOnline introduced a backup service built on top of Amazon’s S3 cloud storag...

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M&A, divestitures, Asia-pacific, wholesale cloud and managed third party cloud

May 23, 2016
Philbert Shih

M&A has been relatively quiet of late but was at the centre of activity in the sector this past ...

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