Author Archive

M&A, SMBs, freemium and global movements

October 6, 2014
Philbert Shih

It was a very busy week with M&A in Europe at the forefront of developments. ...

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Online Tech acquires property in Indianapolis for fifth data centre (update2)

October 2, 2014
Philbert Shih

Online Tech opened its recently acquired 44k gross sqft Indianpolis data centre after investing $10m...

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OnApp acquires SolusVM; enabling federation and hybrid

October 2, 2014
Philbert Shih

Cloud orchestration vendor OnApp acquired SolusVM, a UK-based virtual server management platform ven...

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Interoute acquires Vtesse; extends network, adds data centre

October 2, 2014
Philbert Shih

Interoute acquired UK-based Vtesse group for an undisclosed amount. ...

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TeliaSonera acquires Ipeer; strategic acquisitions extend to Scandinavia

October 2, 2014
Philbert Shih

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AWS, Rax reboot servers but response reflects value prop differences

October 1, 2014
Philbert Shih

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Cosentry enters Milwaukee, WI market with Red Anvil acquisition

October 1, 2014
Philbert Shih

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CenturyLink expands hosting services reach to China; opens data centre

September 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

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Microsoft to open India data centres for Azure, Office 365 in 2015

September 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed plans to build data centres in three Indian cities by the end o...

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Burning Questions: Why is freemium hosting increasingly important?

September 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

The freemium web hosting model has gained momentum over the last several years and companies like Wi...

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Endurance to resell Google messaging, collaboration tools to customers

September 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

Endurance International partnered up with Google for Google for Work, formerly known as Google Apps....

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Application layer, SLAs, mixed services and reboots

September 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

It was a relatively quiet week but it was notable for a number of developments that do not always ge...

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