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PayPal moving to OpenStack, Mirantis open sources blueprint

March 25, 2013
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate that PayPal, and eventually parent eBay, will move to OpenStack for internal ...

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Productivity, capital and the cloud = mixed bag

March 25, 2013
Philbert Shih

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RagingWire unleashes win in Ashburn

March 25, 2013
Philbert Shih

RagingWire brought on a hoster as a new colocation customer for its data centre in Ashburn, VA. ...

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Open-Xchange unveils OX Text; shifts to productivity

March 25, 2013
Philbert Shih

Open-Xchange launched a preview of OX Text, a new browser-based word processor that will ultimately ...

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QTS with healthcare win in Atlanta

March 21, 2013
Philbert Shih

QTS added WellStar Health System as a new colocation customer. ...

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Reported Amazon win could shift business model?

March 21, 2013
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate that Amazon Web Services is the primary supplier of a cloud infrastructure co...

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Burning Questions: What uses cases are widening addressable market?

March 20, 2013
Philbert Shih

Hosters are building capabilities for handling performance-sensitive and i/o-intensive workloads as ...

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Profitbricks raises $19.5m to fund growth

March 20, 2013
Philbert Shih

ProfitBricks raised a second round of financing for $19.5m. ...

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Intergenia hires Parallels APAC GM as CEO (update)

March 19, 2013
Philbert Shih

Several weeks back we noted that Germany’s intergenia brought on Jan-Jaap Jager as CEO. ...

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Rumours, M&A, expansion and even more clouds

March 18, 2013
Philbert Shih

The past week was one of the busiest this year. ...

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Runa Capital takes stake in BackupAgent

March 18, 2013
Philbert Shih

BackupAgent raised $2m from Runa Capital. ...

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SunGard grows customer on managed hosting side

March 17, 2013
Philbert Shih

SunGard expanded an existing customer – CBRE – with the cross-sell of managed hosting an...

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