2015-05-26 "With Tuesday's news that EMC is buying Virtustream for $1.2 billion, there is one less independent cloud infrastructure provider out there. And those numbers are dwindling by the month. hosting,acquisitions,nodejs,consolidation,cloud_hosting In the past two years, legacy technology giants IBM (IBM, +0.27%), Cisco (CSCO, -0.70%) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, +0.25%), EMC (EMC) and Datapipe gobbled up SoftLayer, Metacloud, Eucalyptus, Cloudscaling, and GoGrid respectively to build their cloud stature. Now, you have to wonder what company's next to go." #hosting #acquisitions #consolidation #cloud_hosting #journalism #pub