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Savvis to expand in Minneapolis with new data centre

October 2, 2013
Philbert Shih

Savvis disclosed plans to open a second data centre in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market targeted for ...

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What is state of hosting in Canada?

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

What is state of hosting in Canada? ...

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M&A and hosting in Canada

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Rogers acquiring Pivot Data Centers and Granite Networks was the latest in a wave of transactions in...

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Asia-pacific SI, MSP, VAR, traditional IT provider

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

This was perhaps one of the most interesting data points we came across: traditional IT providers in...

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Details about Indonesia market

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Like India, Indonesia has been an intriguing market and the recent entry by Equinix bears out this p...

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Asia-pacific growth

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Asia-pacific growth: The region as a whole should be growing faster than mature markets. ...

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Asia-pacific landscape

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Asia-pacific landscape:The market continues to be fragmented and there is relatively little if any M...

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Asia-pacific and Amazon

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Asia-pacific and Amazon: We chatted with providers in India and Singapore and they reported competit...

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Rogers acquires Pivot, Granite; colo additions to infrastructure play (update)

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to speak with management at Rogers-BLACKIRON to get a bit more insight into the acqu...

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M&A, Canada, expansions and the Nirvanix debacle

October 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

For yet another week there was meaningful M&A activity. ...

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Nirvanix about to shut doors; analysis of reasons, impact, lessons (update)

September 30, 2013
Philbert Shih

Nirvanix’s sudden announcement that it was shutting its doors – with little warning or help ...

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Google Apps customer reflects separation: customer management and platform

September 30, 2013
Philbert Shih

Google Apps brought on another mid-sized organization – Alaska-based SeaPort Airlines –...

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