Archive for the ‘Cloud Infrastructure’ Category

More capabilities-driven acquisitions

August 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

There are more of these kinds of deals to come and they are driven by a number of factors. ...

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Strategic acquisition slowdown

August 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Strategic acquirers arguably were the key drivers behind the recent M&A wave that saw multiples ...

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More acquisitions of technology and capabilities in shared hosting

August 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Shared hosting is still fragmented but the signs are there that consolidation – at least in the US...

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More consolidation in the UK

August 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

There are no fewer than seven UK-based firms actively involved in rolling up hosting and cloud asset...

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SoftLayer use case about bare metal capacity, speed

August 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

SoftLayer shared an interesting use case that speaks to the shift towards optimizing infrastructure ...

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CentriLogic shares growth metrics, data points; deliberate strategy

July 30, 2013
Philbert Shih

CentriLogic disclosed some growth metrics that give us some valuable insight into its growth traject...

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Executive transition underway at Rackspace

July 30, 2013
Philbert Shih

Rackspace will make a few changes at the executive level as current president and chief strategy off...

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Switch colocation customers reveal cloud ecosystem benefits

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

Switch Communications disclosed a pair of customers that provide insight into the ecosystem they are...

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Compliance: A hosting growth market

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

Compliance-based hosting is a growth market. ...

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User interface: Internap

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

The portal and user interface is a key differentiator. ...

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Hybrid: Cloud and colocation

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

Hybrid continues to be an area of growth in the market and the combinations are diversifying. ...

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Outages: Google

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

There were fewer outages from hosters this past quarter though Google had a few bumps with Gmail. ...

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