Archive for the ‘Cloud Infrastructure’ Category

SunGard Availability Services expansion plans, investments

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

SunGard disclosed some quick data points about the Availability Services arm focused on managed host...

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Appointments: Intergenia, Tier 3, Xand, Nirvanix

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There were a number of new CEOs that took over in the last quarter (Intergenia, Tier 3, Xand, Nirvan...

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Achieving scale: Rackspace

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Achieving scale: Rackspace is moving to go straight to the parts manufacturers in Asia and build ser...

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Support improvements: Amazon and Google

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Support improvements: Support has been a shortcoming for the likes of Amazon and Google but they are...

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Pricing pressure: Rackspace got into the price cutting game

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Pricing pressure: Rackspace got into the price cutting game as Amazon, Google and Microsoft continu...

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The giants: VMware rolling out a retail cloud infrastructure service

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

The giants: biggest move this quarter was clearly VMware rolling out a retail cloud infrastructure s...

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Products/Services: Microsoft, Dimension Data, FireHost

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Products and services: Some of the notable ones were the Microsoft release of Cloud OS, Dimension Da...

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Messaging and collaboration: Active segment in 1Q13

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Messaging and collaboration: This was an active segment in 1Q13. ...

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Cloud activity was very much a mixed bag

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Cloud activity was very much a mixed bag. ...

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Cloud nodes: Expansion has slowed down

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Cloud nodes: Continuing a recent trend, cloud node expansion has slowed down considerably. ...

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AWS graduates: Hosters shared case studies

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

While this is a recurring theme, a number of hosters shared case studies of customers moving from th...

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Hurricane Sandy: Positively impacted revenues with certain providers

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

The impact of Hurricane Sandy seems to have positively impacted revenues with certain providers. ...

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