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Verizon data centre business appears to be back on block

January 7, 2016
Philbert Shih

Multiple media reports confirm chatter that has emerged across the industry: Verizon will look to tr...

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Amazon opens data centres in Seoul; customers moving from on-premise

January 7, 2016
Philbert Shih

AWS bought online its latest availability zone in the Asia-pacific region. ...

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Former Verizon-Terremark executive joins IBM Innovation Labs

January 5, 2016
Philbert Shih

John Considine, the founder of CloudSwitch, has joined IBM as VP of its Innovation Labs. ...

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Open-Xchange shows growth in 2015, inks large deals

January 4, 2016
Philbert Shih

Open-Xchange disclosed some useful data points about its progress in 2015. ...

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Linode suffers major outage, issues ongoing

January 2, 2016
Philbert Shih

Linode has been under a wave of DDoS attacks since December 25, 2015 and as of January 2, 2016 the i...

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Canadian Web Hosting acquires eSecureData; doubling down on Canada

December 30, 2015
Philbert Shih

Canadian Web Hosting, a provider based in Vancouver, acquired eSecureData, a provider of dedicated s...

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VMware steps away from partnership with EMC to back Virtustream

December 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

VMware confirmed it would not pursue the proposed partnership with EMC to back the cloud infrastruct...

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Connectria receives healthcare certification for AWS

December 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

Connectria received the Amazon Web Services Healthcare Competency that validates its ability to main...

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Servers.com opens Luxembourg data centre

December 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

Servers.com, based in Luxembourg and part of XBT Holdings, opened a new data centre in Luxembourg. ...

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NetApp acquires SolidFire for $870m

December 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

NetApp will acquire Boulder, Colorado-based SolidFire in an all-cash deal worth $870m. ...

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Datavail raises $47m amid growth; remote and hosted coming together

December 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

Datavail raised $47m in a Series D round led by Catalyst Investors with Lumerity Capital Partners an...

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ZeroLag launches managed Magento on AWS

December 22, 2015
Philbert Shih

ZeroLag, based in Los Angeles, introduced a managed Magento service that runs on top of AWS. ...

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