Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Microsoft and Google in messaging

October 23, 2013
Philbert Shih

Microsoft and Google in messaging: We have seen a number of messaging and collaboration deals for M...

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Google Apps wins Whirlpool; real-time collaboration a driver

October 22, 2013
Philbert Shih

Google has been somewhat quite of late on the Google Apps front but recently landed a large enterpri...

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SoftLayer data point

October 16, 2013
Philbert Shih

SoftLayer has added 1k new “business” customers in the three months since it joined IBM....

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SoftLayer data point

October 16, 2013
Philbert Shih

SoftLayer has added 1k new “business” customers in the three months since it joined IBM....

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Nirvanix about to shut doors; analysis of reasons, impact, lessons (update2)

October 5, 2013
Philbert Shih

Nirvanix has filed for bankruptcy and has made some effort to help its customers move data out of it...

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What is the latest at SoftLayer and IBM? Status quo … and change

September 10, 2013
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to catch up with SoftLayer and IBM to get some insight into progress a quarter since...

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IBM contract with Department of Interior heavy in hosting, cloud

August 14, 2013
Philbert Shih

IBM landed a large outsourced infrastructure services contract with the US Department of the Interio...

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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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The giants: IBM, Dell

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

With exception to IBM the big boys were somewhat quiet this past quarter. ...

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Rumour mill: Rackspace

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

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2Q13 M&A

July 29, 2013
Philbert Shih

M&A showed a bit of an uptick in 2Q13 and was highlighted by another large entity making a strat...

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IBM buy of SoftLayer done; new customer sheds light on platform, value-add play

July 8, 2013
Philbert Shih

IBM completed its acquisition of SoftLayer and disclosed the identity of a new customer meant to pro...

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