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Rackspace Acquires Exceptional Cloud Services and Expands its Cloud Portfolio
3 April, 2013
Last Thursday (on March 28, 2013), Rackspace Hosting, one of the leading providers of managed hosting and advanced cloud services, announced that it would be acquiring Exceptional Cloud Services and thus expand its open cloud portfolio with additional error tracking, Redis-as-a-Service and other advanced features that it will acquire from Exceptional Cloud Services’ solutions. As [...] Read more»
CDNetworks Boasts of 48 Cloud DNS Servers making it Most Authoritative Global DNS
30 March, 2013
A couple weeks (on March 26, 2013), CDNetworks, the only multinational Content Delivery Network to have network reach and local expertise across six continents and mainland China, announced that it now has 48 Cloud Domain Network System (DNS) around the globe, which is more than any other leading DNS network. In the last twelve months, [...] Read more»
ObjectRocket Acquired by Rackspace
12 March, 2013
A couple weeks ago (on February 27, 2013), Rackspace Hosting, one of the leading providers of scalable cloud infrastructure services, announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with ObjectRocket, one of the leading providers of MongoDB Database as a Service (DBaaS), to acquire the latter and expand its OpenStack-based cloud offering by adding [...] Read more»
Softlayer supports Startup Texas’ Entrepreneurs
19 February, 2013
Last Monday (on February 11, 2013), SoftLayer Technologies, one of the leading providers of network and cloud infrastructure services, announced that it will start to support Startup Texas, which is a branch of Startup America via its Catalyst Startup Program. Startup America is known for supporting national network of entrepreneurial communities dedicated to advancing the [...] Read more»
Akamai’s ADS Data Cooperative Solutions to be bought by MediaMath
27 January, 2013
Akamai Technologies, one of the leaders in cloud-based optimization services and MediaMath, the leading global digital platform for media-buying, announced that Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) data cooperative solution would be acquired by MediaMath. As part of this deal, MediaMath will slowly integrate all the assets associated with Akamai ADS into its industry-leading Data Management [...] Read more»
PEER 1 Hosting to Be Acquired by Cogeco Cable Inc.
24 December, 2012Last Friday (on December 21, 2012), PEER 1 Hosting, one of the leading providers of managed hosting services, and Cogeco Cable Inc., one of the largest providers of network services in Canada, announced that they had entered into an agreement based on which Cogeco Cable would be acquiring PEER 1’s shares at $3.85 in cash. [...] Read more»
Akamai Completes Verivue’s Acquisition
5 December, 2012Today (on December 5, 2012), Akamai Technologies, one of the leading providers of global platforms for streaming media and web optimization solutions, announced that it had completed the acquisition of the Massachusetts-based Verivue in a cash transaction. Last month, Akamai had announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Verivue and that [...] Read more»
Verivue to Be Acquired By Akamai
13 November, 2012Today (on November 13, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the leading global cloud and streaming media solutions platform provider and Verivue, one of the leading providers of high-performance IP solutions, announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Verivue in a cash transaction by the end of 2012. Verivue has an extremely [...] Read more»
Fastweb Acquired by 21Vianet Group Inc.
25 September, 2012Last Thursday (on September 20, 2012), 21Vianet Group, Inc., one of the largest provider of carrier-neutral data center services providers in China, announced that it has acquired the Fastweb International Holdings, one of the leading Content Delivery Network and cloud-based services providers in China. By acquiring Fastweb’s Chinese network infrastructure, 21Vianet will now have access [...] Read more»
FastSoft Inc. Acquired by Akamai
14 September, 2012Yesterday (on September 13, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Network and web optimization services, announced that it had acquired FastSoft Inc., a content acceleration software provider, in a cash transaction. The acquisition will supplement Akamai’s cloud platform with various optimization technologies from FastSoft. Apart from its various collaborations with mod_pagespeed and [.. Read more»
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