Structure Research

Six Degrees buys Firstserv, Serverstream; more hosting

Phil Shih — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:17:05 +0000

Summary: Six Degrees Group acquired a pair of hosting companies in the UK.

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Pacnet expands Sydney, Australia data centre

Phil Shih — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:37:01 +0000

Summary: Pacnet expanded its data centre in Sydney, Australia.

Details: The data centre is located at Liverpool Street and was opened early in 1Q11. This expansion phase adds inventory of 3 MW of power for 700 racks. Pacnet has ramped up its data centre capacity of late with recent expansions in Hong Kong and Singapore. The moves reflect a growing emphasis on hosting and cloud infrastructure services and the demand this product line is aiming to serve.

Host Europe buys Mesh Digital; about domain platform

Phil Shih — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:44 +0000

Summary: Host Europe Group acquired Mesh Digital in the UK for an undisclosed amount.

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Jelastic launches Java PaaS in Russia with Rusonyx (update)

Phil Shih — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:34:36 +0000

*Update:

Summary: Jelastic and its hosting infrastructure partner Rusonyx moved its Java PaaS into live production mode. This PaaS is hosted in Rusonyx’s Russia-based data centres. Trial customers are now being converted to paid customers. Jelastic and its Java-based PaaS has launched a number of betas with hosting partners (ServInt and Host Europe Group are others) and has raised its user base (both beta and paid) to 16k in the last eight months.

**The original post can be found here.

Phoenix NAP wins local IT provider

Phil Shih — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:16:34 +0000

Summary: Phoenix NAP brought on a new colocation customer.

Details: The customer – Yahoo Serious – is a local IT and managed services shop that opened its doors in 2010. It is based in Tempe, Arizona. It handles IT issues on-site and also does it off-site and hosts infrastructure. The infrastructure will be based in Phoenix NAP’s Phoenix-based data centre. The customer cited security, infrastructure and network density as key selling points. This is yet another example of an IT shop/MSP that is transitioning at least part of its business to hosting infrastructure.