Archive for the ‘Hosting Infrastructure’ Category

GoDaddy administrative error on AWS causes data breach

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

Multiple media outlets confirmed that potentially sensitive internal and customer data on 31k GoDadd...

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TransIP acquires IT-Ernity in The Netherlands; more consolidation in Dutch market

August 15, 2018
Philbert Shih

Dutch hoster TransIP acquired fellow Dutch provider IT-Ernity. ...

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Google said to be looking at China partnership for cloud

August 14, 2018
Philbert Shih

Media outlets report that Google has been in talks with China-based companies in pursuit of a partne...

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Zoho to open two India data centres

August 14, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

US-based Zoho Corp is opening two data centres in India. ...

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AWS adds to EC2 cloud compute family

August 14, 2018
Philbert Shih

AWS added more EC2 instance sizes that are geared to memory-intensive applications. ...

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CyrusOne reports 2Q18 results; hyperscale portion of base inching up

August 13, 2018
Jabez Tan

CyrusOne reported its 2Q18 results, which reflected a strong quarter of leasing driven by both US an...

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Earnings, edge data centres, devices, M&A, cloud consultancies

August 13, 2018
Philbert Shih

Earnings season is in full swing and we took a close look at numbers coming from a number of compani...

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AWS wants to ship you Snowball Edge for edge compute

August 10, 2018
Phil Shih

Amazon is looking to compete against FedEx and UPS in the shipping business. Here’s another reason...

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Hitachi Ventara acquires REAN Cloud; adds public cloud skill set

August 10, 2018
Philbert Shih

Hitachi IT and managed services services subsidiary Hitachi Ventara has agreed to acquire REAN Cloud...

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Google Cloud strikes blockchain agreements

August 10, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Google inked a couple of partnership agreements to bring blockchain to Google Cloud Platform. ...

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AWS gaming customer all-in and expanding through value-add

August 10, 2018
Philbert Shih

AWS disclosed a customer on the gaming side that has gone all-in 0n AWS and expanded its use of the ...

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Netgain Technology acquires Afinety; adds another vertical specialization

August 9, 2018
Philbert Shih

Netgain Technology in St. Cloud Minnesota acquired a company called Afinety, a provider of cloud and...

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