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Hosting and colocation provider customers win

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

In recent conversations with a managed hosting and colocation provider they reported a number of win...

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Colocation is increasingly losing favour against hosting and cloud?

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

It struck us that some customers that use colocation buy managed hosting at the contract renewal and...

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Hoster-operated clouds

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

Speaking of speed and performance, there continues to be big push here with hoster-operated clouds. ...

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CloudTrail and higher-performance cloud instances

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

Amazon continues to double down on anything that gives it “enterprise chops”. ...

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Growth drivers of Equinix

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

Equinix again pointed to hosting and cloud infrastructure providers and financial services as primar...

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Slowing growth of hosting and colocation space

November 15, 2013
Philbert Shih

We are still tracking earnings season but it looks like in the managed hosting and colocation space ...

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Amazon unveils CloudTrail; auditing tool built to match hosting value prop

November 14, 2013
Philbert Shih

Amazon Web Services is in the midst of releasing several new products and one of the interesting one...

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Dimension Data expands cloud infrastructure footprint; enters Brazil

November 14, 2013
Philbert Shih

Dimension Data expanded its cloud infrastructure footprint into four additional locations and entere...

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PEER1 co-CEO arrangement to end; Gary Sherlock taking over

November 14, 2013
Philbert Shih

PEER1 co-CEO Fabio Banducci will be stepping down from his role and handing over the reins to the ot...

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DataBank to expand new Minneapolis data centre (update)

November 13, 2013
Philbert Shih

Databank is close to completing an expansion to the data centre in Minneapolis it acquired from Veri...

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Webair adds cloud servers to Amsterdam data centre

November 13, 2013
Philbert Shih

Webair made its cloud infrastructure services available out of its data centre location in Amsterdam...

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Flexiant rolls out cloud platform update; plugins, flexibility, differentiation

November 12, 2013
Philbert Shih

Flexiant released version 4.0 of its cloud infrastructure enablement platform. ...

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