Posts Tagged ‘Rackspace’

Rumour mill SoftLayer

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There was no shortage of rumours swirling around SoftLayer. ...

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Downtick in M&A

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There was a bit of a downtick in M&A activity but a number of transactions took place. ...

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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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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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Apple cloud storage data point; hosting impact

April 23, 2013
Philbert Shih

Apple disclosed growth in the iCloud user base that provides insight into its progress in the cloud ...

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Rax takes OpenStack to SPs; federation play, extend value

April 16, 2013
Philbert Shih

Rackspace is taking OpenStack to the service provider channel with a technology, service and support...

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Rackspace buys Exceptional toolset for developers

April 7, 2013
Philbert Shih

Rackspace acquired Exceptional Cloud Services in a move to expand the toolset available to applicati...

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Burning Questions: Is Rax in a transition period, getting cannibalized?

April 4, 2013
Philbert Shih

The short answer is no. ...

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Endurance acquires Mojoness; building value, implications

April 1, 2013
Philbert Shih

Endurance International acquired Mojoness for an undisclosed amount. We look at the deal logic and s...

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PayPal moving to OpenStack, Mirantis open sources blueprint

March 25, 2013
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate that PayPal, and eventually parent eBay, will move to OpenStack for internal ...

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Burning Questions: What uses cases are widening addressable market?

March 20, 2013
Philbert Shih

Hosters are building capabilities for handling performance-sensitive and i/o-intensive workloads as ...

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VMware moves to the public cloud; implications for hosters

March 14, 2013
Philbert Shih

The rumour mill has been churning for weeks and VMware finally confirmed that it is building out a r...

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