AWS, cloud, M&A, SMB, earnings, APAC
The sector began to slow a bit as the end of the year approaches. But there were a number of important developments worth taking a closer look at.
We talked last week about some of the more important new products coming out of AWS re:Invent and one of them was bare metal. One of the other notable new products was the new Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. Enabling containers has become a new battleground and Amazon is right in there mixing it up.
The strategic side of things was active. IO Data Centers, said to be on the verge of something for several months, sold its US operations to Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain has had a busy year expanding its footprint through M&A and added facilities in several new markets on a global basis.
Meanwhile, closer to the SMB side, Jungle Disk in Texas acquired SafetyNet for backing up Quickbooks online users, while in Australia, Dreamscape Networks continued to build out its platform with the acquisition of Entica Group. And over in the UK, iomart Group closed a few acquisitions.
We also looked more closely at earnings season with details on providers on both the SMB and colocation side: CyrusOne, CoreSite, Switch, iomart Group and Dreamscape.
There were also some noteworthy events coming out of the Asia-pacific, with Global Switch opening its wholesale facility in Hong Kong and Equinix signing on another of the emerging cloud infrastructure providers in China.
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