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Equinix reports 3Q15 results

October 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

Equinix reported its 3Q15 results. ...

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Walmart open sources cloud platform; vendor lock-in fight building

October 29, 2015
Philbert Shih

There have been some interesting if not intriguing developments coming out of Walmart of all places...

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VMware updates portfolio, building out vCloud Air

October 26, 2015
Philbert Shih

Some meaningful developments coming out of VMware the last several weeks slipped through our cracks....

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M&A, earnings, legacy IT and cloud

October 26, 2015
Philbert Shih

It was a very busy week as earnings season is now underway with the likes of AWS, Keppel and CoreSit...

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Equinix, Rax team up for direct connections; dedicated, third party cloud

October 26, 2015
Philbert Shih

Equinix will start offering direct access to Rackspace infrastructure services from its data centre...

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Amazon reports 3Q15 results; multiple tailwinds for AWS arm

October 23, 2015
Philbert Shih

Amazon reported its 3Q15 results and again knocked the ball out of the park when it came to top and ...

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HP confirms exit from public cloud; shift reflects times and at right time

October 22, 2015
Philbert Shih

HP confirmed what it had already hinted at earlier this year: that it will shutter its public cloud ...

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Cologix acquires Net Access; enters NJ market, cloud enablement

October 20, 2015
Philbert Shih

Cologix will acquire New Jersey-based Net Access Corp, a colocation and hosting provider based in Ne...

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TierPoint acquires Windstream’s data centre, hosting assets

October 19, 2015
Philbert Shih

TierPoint will acquire Windstream’s data centre business for $535m in cash. ...

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Cloud, massive-scale, messaging and M&A

October 19, 2015
Philbert Shih

The past week saw continued activity in cloud infrastructure. ...

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Amazon adds additional tier to S3 storage; flexibility, optimization

October 15, 2015
Philbert Shih

Amazon recently introduced a new tier of service for S3 storage to provide additional flexibility fo...

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Alibaba’s Aliyun setting up second Silicon Valley data centre

October 14, 2015
Philbert Shih

Alibaba’s cloud arm Aliyun is setting up a second Silicon Valley-based data centre.< ...

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