Author Archive

M&A, Canada, upticks, downticks

August 4, 2014
Philbert Shih

Earnings season was in full force this past week with both colocation and hosting-centric companies ...

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SherWeb acquires ORCS Web; adding hosting, servers

August 4, 2014
Philbert Shih

SherWeb, a messaging provider based in Montreal, acquired ORCS Web, a managed hoster based in Charlo...

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Atlantic.Net expands cloud footprint with Toronto, Dallas data centres

August 1, 2014
Philbert Shih

Florida-based Atlantic.Net opened new data centres in Toronto, Canada and Dallas, Texas. ...

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Shaw acquires ViaWest; all about the platform and blueprint (update)

July 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Shaw Communications, a Canadian cable and Internet access provider based in Calgary, Alberta, acquir...

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Shaw acquires ViaWest; latest platform move from Canadian telco

July 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Shaw Communications, a Canadian cable and Internet access provider, acquired ViaWest for approximate...

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Peak partner Komodo moves customer from colocation to cloud

July 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

Peak’s cloud infrastructure service is being used by DirectBuy through Peak’s partner Ko...

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Rax tiers managed services, pricing, pushing bare metal; back to the future

July 28, 2014
Philbert Shih

Rackspace more clearly defined its managed services levels and has taken a new approach to its prici...

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iomart Group receives acquisition offers from Host Europe Group

July 28, 2014
Philbert Shih

Regulatory body filings show there there has been interest in UK-based managed hoster iomart Group f...

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Mixed results, managed AWS, performance, expansion

July 28, 2014
Philbert Shih

Earnings season got underway with colocation-centric companies first out. ...

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Cosentry shares data points on growth and investment

July 25, 2014
Philbert Shih

Cosentry confirmed some data points about its current trajectory. ...

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iLand drops cloud node into Singapore with Pacnet

July 23, 2014
Philbert Shih

Pacnet’s newest data centre tenant from the hosting and cloud space is iLand. ...

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INetU moves into managed AWS; more integration versus separation

July 23, 2014
Philbert Shih

INetU is the latest hoster to get into the managed AWS game but has its own twist with tighter integ...

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