Author Archive

Burning Questions: Why is freemium hosting increasingly important?

September 30, 2014
Philbert Shih

The freemium web hosting model has gained momentum over the last several years and companies like Wi...

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Endurance to resell Google messaging, collaboration tools to customers

September 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

Endurance International partnered up with Google for Google for Work, formerly known as Google Apps....

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Application layer, SLAs, mixed services and reboots

September 29, 2014
Philbert Shih

It was a relatively quiet week but it was notable for a number of developments that do not always ge...

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ServInt shifts focus of SLA to performance and availability of resources

September 25, 2014
Philbert Shih

ServInt introduced a new service-level guarantee that is tied to performance rather than uptime. ...

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Endurance partners with Google in Africa and Southeast Asia

September 25, 2014
Philbert Shih

Endurance International and Google have partnered up to encourage small businesses to get online in ...

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Oracle partners with Secure-24 for Oracle application hosting

September 25, 2014
Philbert Shih

Oracle partnered with Michigan-based Secure-24 to provide infrastructure and managed services for a ...

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IBM housing private cloud in China with 21Vianet (update)

September 24, 2014
Philbert Shih

Late last year IBM began working with 21Vianet to launch a managed private cloud offering for the Ch...

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CDN provider Fastly raises $40m in Series C round

September 24, 2014
Philbert Shih

CDN provider Fastly raised $40m in a Series C round. ...

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Sungard colocation customer Kahua buys managed services

September 24, 2014
Philbert Shih

Sungard Availability Services disclosed one of its customers: Kahua. ...

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J2 Global enters hosting with Web24 buy; looking for platform, synergies

September 22, 2014
Philbert Shih

Los Angeles-based J2 Global Communications acquired Australia-based hoster Web24 Group. ...

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No deals, deals and unified communications

September 22, 2014
Philbert Shih

The past week saw the end to several months of speculation and rumours with Rackspace publicly confi...

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CentriLogic expands data centre capacity in Lenoir; shares data points

September 19, 2014
Philbert Shih

Toronto-based CentriLogic recently competed a six-month expansion project for its data centre in Len...

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