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 ... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
Burning Questions: Is Rax in a transition period, getting cannibalized? April 4, 2013 Philbert Shih The short answer is no. ... Read more...
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... Read more...
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 ... Read more...
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 ... Read more...
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... Read more...
Rackspace enhances on-premise private cloud capabilities March 10, 2013 Philbert Shih Rackspace rolled out feature enhancements for its on-premise private cloud service based on OpenStac... Read more...
Burning Questions: Are hosters going to buy SaaS providers? March 10, 2013 Philbert Shih Some analysts have suggested that hosters in the SMB space will look to acquire SaaS providers as th... Read more...
Rackspace to build own servers; dual impact March 5, 2013 Philbert Shih Rackspace recently said it would start to build its own servers. ... Read more...
Rackspace acquires ObjectRocket with eye to DBs in the cloud February 27, 2013 Philbert Shih Rackspace acquired another startup: ObjectRocket ... Read more...
