Analyst Notes

Tucows acquires MelbourneIT’s domain reseller channel base; win-win

March 22, 2016
Philbert Shih

Tucows, a domain and Internet services wholesaler based in Toronto, will acquire certain wholesale d...

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New executive hire at CyrusOne

March 22, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

CyrusOne named Kellie Teal-Guess as its new executive VP and chief people officer. ...

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Veritas to open Australia data centres; data sovereignty, cloud the drivers

March 22, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

Veritas Technologies signed a multi-year agreement to use Equinix Sydney as its primary data centre ...

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Amazon’s Dublin data centre plans delayed

March 22, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

Amazon’s planning application to begin the process for a new Dublin data centre has been rejected....

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WP Engine adds two-factor authentication

March 22, 2016
Philbert Shih

WP Engine, a Texas-based WordPress hoster, rolled out two-factor authentication. ...

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Exponential-e testing Render as a service with Azure

March 21, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

The UK’s Exponential-e is collaborating with Microsoft Azure to provide Render as a service (RaaS)...

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GoDaddy gets back into cloud infrastructure; widen addressable market, not about AWS

March 21, 2016
Philbert Shih

We noted earlier last year that GoDaddy was beta testing a cloud infrastructure service. This was j...

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NEXTDC launches DCIM-as-a-Service tool for colocation visibility

March 21, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

Australia’s NEXTDC will release its ONEDC data centre infrastructure management as a service (DCIM...

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Ikoula expands to the Netherlands through acquisition of Ermis

March 21, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

France-based hosting provider Ikoula acquired Dutch hoster Ermis, which has been renamed Ikoula Neth...

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Tranquil Hosting opens Hong Kong data centre with NTT

March 21, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

North Carolina-based Tranquil Hosting expanded its footprint, taking space in NTT’s Hong Kong data...

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Dropbox moves from AWS to owned data centre

March 21, 2016
Sacha Kavanagh

Dropbox, which stores billions of files for some 500 million users globally, revealed it moved the m...

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Cloud, M&A, earnings and Asia-pacific

March 21, 2016
Philbert Shih

It was a somewhat slow week for the sector with the onset of March break and good portions of the se...

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