http://gigaom.com/2011/01/30/the-case-for-rackspace-as-a-cloud-crown-jewel/ Wed, 22 May 2013 22:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/01/30/the-case-for-rackspace-as-a-cloud-crown-jewel/#comment-591054 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:31:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=291749#comment-591054 [...] Rackspace emerges from what’s now a mini telco buying spree independent — a possibility that seems increasingly likely given its fast-growing business [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/01/30/the-case-for-rackspace-as-a-cloud-crown-jewel/#comment-590095 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:03:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=291749#comment-590095 [...] ago, Verizon’s purchase of Terremark had some — including myself — noting that Rackspace might be the crown jewel if telcos were going to start consolidating hosting providers to boost their own cloud [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/01/30/the-case-for-rackspace-as-a-cloud-crown-jewel/#comment-584044 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:50:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=291749#comment-584044 [...] be time to start separating out infrastructure services from more self-service cloud offerings. Derrick Harris at GigaOM starts to make this argument by separating managed hosting providers from cloud companies. The [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/01/30/the-case-for-rackspace-as-a-cloud-crown-jewel/#comment-583547 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:50:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=291749#comment-583547 I just can’t seem to wrap my head around this acquisition… I haven’t seen Wall Street make sense of it either. Of course, Terremark, as a data center operator makes sense as a cloud play and acquisition. However, Terremark has also been a major carrier-neutral peering point operator as well. That carrier-neutralt status will transformed with Verizon taking over. What percentage of Terremark’s revenues can be attributed to its carrier-neutral status versus operation of high quality data center space? Perhaps, Verizon doesn’t care about that business and is only focused on the data center side of things…

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