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Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services:Navigating and understanding the market on a global basis

December 2011

Company Details Founded in September 2011 Based in Toronto, Canada Managing Director: Philbert Shih 11 yrs. experience covering hosting

and cloud infrastructure services; 6 yrs. as analyst at Tier1 Research

Hired and mentored by Andy Schroepfer, founder of Tier1 Research

What we doStructure Research is an independent research and consulting firm with a special focus on the hosting and cloud segments within the Internet infrastructure market. We are devoted to understanding, tracking and projecting the future of hosting and cloud infrastructure service providers.

Mission StatementStructure Research is committed to publishing the best research and analysis about the hosting and cloud infrastructure services market using a hybrid model that mixes open source research with subscription-based publications.

Services Daily research in blog format Quarterly reports Market sizing Consulting Media services Webinars Online advertising

Research Coverage Hosting infrastructure services:

managed hosting, dedicated hosting, virtual hosting, shared hosting, domain names, colocation

Cloud infrastructure services: IaaS, PaaS

Hosting and cloud ecosystem: CDN, SaaS, value-added services, automation software

Why Structure? Timely and in-depth insight into market

trends Economical writing, snippets, bullets for

skimming Extensive experience lends to unique

perspective Leverage far-reaching industry network Independent and objective third party

analysis Open source research Flexible payment terms Affordable rates

Contact us

Philbert Shih Managing Director Structure Research

ps@structureresearch.net