Verizon, Time Warner Acquisitions: Harbingers for Change, Cloud Consolidation

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..."It validates the inevitability of this shift [toward the cloud] and the desires of all players in this ecosystem...to figure out what their role is going to be in this world," said Ryan Nichols, vice president of solutions marketing and strategy for San Mateo, Calif.-based solution provider Appirio. Nichols added that Verizon acquiring Terremark and Time Warner Cable buying NaviSite show that it's important to every type of player -- telcos, systems integrators, solution providers, and more – to investigate the cloud market and that they're "waking up and realizing how different it is"...