Author Archive

Migrations from Amazon to a hoster-operated cloud

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Talked to a smaller Canadian hoster that has made a number of proposals to customers wanting to mak...

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Uber moved from Amazon to Peak Hosting

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

It is always interesting to see cases of movement from AWS to other hosting or cloud infrastructure ...

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KNJ added CenturyLink as one of its California-based data centres

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

KNJ, an electronic discovery consulting firm, added colocation presence with CenturyLink in one of ...

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Stephens Group acquired BAIS last year with plans to merge it with Fibermedia

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Private equity firm Stephens Group acquired BAIS last year with plans to merge it with Fibermedia. ...

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Datapipe hired Ed O’Hara as its new CFO

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Datapipe hired Ed O’Hara as its new CFO. ...

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RightScale laid off 10% of its workforce

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Cloud agnostic management tool RightScale laid off 10% of its workforce. ...

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Rackspace’s intentions to offer the ObjectRocket MongoDB service in its UK data centres

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

We recently mentioned Rackspace’s intentions to offer the ObjectRocket MongoDB service. ...

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Data points from Canadian hoster

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

Talked to a smaller Canadian hoster that has made a number of proposals to customers wanting to mak...

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Movement from AWS to other hosting or cloud infrastructure services

January 31, 2014
Philbert Shih

It is always interesting to see cases of movement from AWS to other hosting or cloud infrastructure ...

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FireHost transitioning further up-market; shares growth metrics

January 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to chat with FireHost about its expansion into Singapore. ...

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Edgewebhosting deploys ScienceLogic; shares growth metrics

January 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

Edgewebhosting, based in Baltimore, Maryland, deployed ScienceLogic’s EM7 monitoring platform....

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GoDaddy acquires Locu; adds efficiency, value while preempting (update)

January 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

GoDaddy acquired Locu back in 3Q13 and has been busy integrating its technology. ...

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