Archive for the ‘Cloud Infrastructure’ Category

Rackspace reports 1Q13 results; more slowing amidst change

May 8, 2013
Philbert Shih

Rackspace reported its 1Q13 results, which again showed declines in the pace of growth. ...

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Flywheel builds WordPress hosting service; optimization, specialization

May 7, 2013
Philbert Shih

Flywheel is a hoster in stealth mode that recently raised an angel round. ...

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Burning Questions: Is Amazon slowing hosting, cloud sector growth?

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

In some of our 1Q13 commentary we discussed some of the factors contributing to the apparent slowdow...

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Earnings, slowing growth, databases, archiving, entrants

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

Picking up where we left off last week, earnings season is in full swing and more hosters reported r...

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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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