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Tranquil Hosting opens Silicon Valley facility with Central Colo

March 7, 2016
Philbert Shih

Tranquil Hosting opened a new data centre in Silicon Valley. ...

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Massive-scale cloud, Rackspace, CapEx, OpEx, innovation

March 7, 2016
Philbert Shih

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WIS in Taiwan to offer Office 365

March 5, 2016
Philbert Shih

Taiwan-based WIS, a hoster and domain registrar, joined Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider pr...

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Managed third party cloud landscape includes more than just hosters

March 3, 2016
Philbert Shih

Managed third party cloud continues to be an area of focus for managed hosters. An interesting devel...

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Data Intensity buys Enrich, Inatech Oracle practice; adds to Oracle capabilities

March 3, 2016
Philbert Shih

Data Intensity, based on Bedford Massachusetts, acquired UK-based Enrich and the Oracle practice of ...

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Acronis expands partnership with Ingram Micro to Asia-pacific

March 3, 2016
Philbert Shih

Acronis backup and data protection software is now available to Ingram Micro’s channel partner...

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Cannibalization another byproduct to come from managed third party cloud services

March 3, 2016
Philbert Shih

We have talked about the spin-off effect when it comes to selling managed third party cloud services...

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Rackspace reports 4Q15 results; managed third party shaping future

March 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

Rackspace reported steady 4Q15 results that were in line with its current growth trajectory. ...

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Rackspace has early data points on managed AWS spin-off effect potential

March 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

Rackspace has about four months of data with respect to managed AWS but shared some directional tren...

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More Rackspace managed AWS data points

March 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

Rackspace provided a number of interesting data points around its managed AWS service. ...

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Rackspace reveals public cloud growth projections; re-aligning resources

March 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

On its earnings call, Rackspace noted some interesting patterns with respect to public cloud uptake....

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1&1 and Bitnami enable one-click application installs

March 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

1&1 partnered with Bitnami, a platform that enables one-click installation, configuration and op...

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