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Burning Questions: Is Amazon slowing hosting, cloud sector growth?

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

In some of our 1Q13 commentary we discussed some of the factors contributing to the apparent slowdow...

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Earnings, slowing growth, databases, archiving, entrants

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

Picking up where we left off last week, earnings season is in full swing and more hosters reported r...

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SunGard Availability Services expansion plans, investments

May 6, 2013
Philbert Shih

SunGard disclosed some quick data points about the Availability Services arm focused on managed host...

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Office 365 supports pulling in social media contacts

May 5, 2013
Philbert Shih

Office 365 recently introduced capabilities for importing contacts to Exchange Online from popular s...

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Intermedia rolls out enhanced archiving services

May 5, 2013
Philbert Shih

Intermedia introduced an enhanced email archiving service for messaging customers with more advanced...

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Web.com reports 1Q13 results; reflecting directional trends

May 5, 2013
Philbert Shih

Web.com reported its 1Q13 results, which again showed top-line growth. ...

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Appointments: Intergenia, Tier 3, Xand, Nirvanix

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There were a number of new CEOs that took over in the last quarter (Intergenia, Tier 3, Xand, Nirvan...

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Directions

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

The sector remains squarely in growth mode. ...

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Funding: OVH

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

No US hosters raised capital but in Europe ProfitBricks raised nearly $20m (Germany), OVH raised �...

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Rumour mill SoftLayer

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There was no shortage of rumours swirling around SoftLayer. ...

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Downtick in M&A

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

There was a bit of a downtick in M&A activity but a number of transactions took place. ...

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Temperature check: Earnings season

May 3, 2013
Philbert Shih

Earnings season will provide more detail but early indications are that the sector continues to slow...

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