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GoDaddy gets back into cloud infrastructure; widen addressable market, not about AWS

March 21, 2016
Philbert Shih

We noted earlier last year that GoDaddy was beta testing a cloud infrastructure service. This was j...

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Cloud, M&A, earnings and Asia-pacific

March 21, 2016
Philbert Shih

It was a somewhat slow week for the sector with the onset of March break and good portions of the se...

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Verizon said to be talking to Google about possibly partnering for cloud

March 18, 2016
Philbert Shih

Summary: Recent media reports make mention of an interesting rumour: that Verizon is talking to Goog...

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Apple said to be moving infrastructure to Google; diversification

March 18, 2016
Philbert Shih

Multiple media reports suggest that Apple is about to shift a significant amount of infrastructure o...

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NetSuite adds to channel partner list with consultancies

March 17, 2016
Philbert Shih

NetSuite disclosed some new channel partners that will help distribute its SaaS-based ERP platform. ...

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Azure to go live in Canada; Office 365 too

March 17, 2016
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate Microsoft Azure will go live in Canada-based data centres in 2Q16. ...

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Virtustream, Vodafone partner for cloud in Germany

March 17, 2016
Philbert Shih

Virtustream, part of EMC, will partner to offer cloud infrastructure services to the German enterpr...

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Lyft uses Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

March 17, 2016
Philbert Shih

Car sharing service Lyft, based in San Francisco, is using AWS EC2 Spot Instances. ...

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NetSource adds Lightower to data centre in Chicago

March 17, 2016
Philbert Shih

NetSource Communications in Chicago, a provider of colocation and hosting, added fibre and connectiv...

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Vox Telecom rolls out site builder and hosting service

March 16, 2016
Philbert Shih

Vox Telecom, based in South Africa, rolled out a new site builder to support its web hosting service...

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GoDaddy comments on infrastructure in Asia-pacific, SG

March 16, 2016
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy confirmed it still only has one data centre in the Asia-pacific region. ...

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Georgia Tech consolidating to Office 365

March 16, 2016
Philbert Shih

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Georgia Tech is phasing out the Zimbra platform and mo...

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