APAC, telcos, M&A, cloud consulting, executive shuffles
The sector moved along steadily this past week as the year begins to wind down. The week was highlighted by a number of strategic developments.
Reporting out of APAC indicates Telstra might be the next telco to try and sell its data centre portfolio. The telco spinout wave that started a number of years back has now moved to the European and APAC markets.
After a relatively quiet lull, there were a few interesting developments in M&A. Server Central acquired Turing Group, a cloud consulting firm it had recently partnered with. Partnership as a test run for acquisition continues to be a pattern when it comes to cloud consulting-service provider combinations and this was no different. In other deals, Online Tech in Michigan acquired Neverfail’s infrastructure hosting assets and Involta closed its second deal of the year.
Elsewhere, on the vendor side, we took a look at recent strategic acquisitions made by IBM, Red Hat and VMware.
There were a few shuffles in executive circles. Rackspace’s president recently departed and left the cloud industry for a startup, while Vapor IO hired a former Rackspace executive as COO.
Meanwhile, there was meaningful activity in the APAC data centre market. STT GDC will be building another facility in Singapore and COLT DCS revealed some plans for a new Mumbai data centre.
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