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News: Data Center Firm, Helio, Acquired by Managed Server Company, Incentra Solutions
Boulder, Colorados - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2007 - IT and storage management solutions to enterprises and managed service providers in North America and Europe, Incentra Solutions, Inc., has acquired Santa Clara, CA-based Helio Solutions, Inc., for approximately $10.3 million, subject to certain post-closing working capital adjustments.
The price paid at closing included $5 million in cash, six million restricted shares of Incentra common stock and the issuance of an unsecured, convertible three-year note for $770,000. Based on meeting certain performance thresholds in each of the three years following closing, the sellers are eligible to receive additional consideration consisting of a combination of cash and restricted shares of Incentra common stock. The sellers have entered into a multi-year year lockup and voting agreement covering all Incentra common stock received in the transaction. Pagemill Partners, headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, advised Incentra Solutions regarding the acquisition.
Privately-held Helio, which is a premier provider of IT and secure data center solutions to mid-tier enterprises and Fortune 1000 companies, had sales of approximately $75 million for the 12 months ended June 30, 2007.
Helio will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Incentra Solutions and continue to operate from its offices in Santa Clara, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, AZ. The acquisition will add a staff of approximately 60 professionals and more than 350 customers to Incentra's existing operations, and Helio president Dave Condensa will remain with the business and report directly to Incentra Solutions President and Chief Operating Officer Shawn O'Grady.
Thomas Sweeney, Chairman and CEO of Incentra Solutions commented, ''In addition to the investments we are making in organic growth, as we have previously demonstrated we will continue to seek strategic opportunities to grow through acquisition, when appropriate. Helio brings to Incentra experienced management and an excellent professional staff with a successful track record. With its large base of well established customers, it meets our strategic goal of providing significant opportunities to increase sales of our value added services including First Call and Enhanced First Call support services, professional services and our GridWorks remote monitoring and management system.''
Mr. Sweeney also said that acquiring Helio will significantly strengthen Incentra's presence in California and Arizona. The acquisition is another important step in the Company's strategy to rapidly grow revenues by acquiring systems integrators with existing direct sales organizations serving the enterprise market. With the addition of Helio revenue, Incentra is well positioned to enter 2008 with an annual revenue run rate of more than $200 million.
Mr. Condensa added, ''Joining Incentra Solutions is a significant move for our employees and our customer base. It not only creates attractive career opportunities for our professional staff, it adds critically important service offerings to our product line to help solve our customers' growing data management requirements. The entire Helio organization is very excited about becoming part of Incentra for we believe this business combination positions the Company as the most complete provider of IT products and value added service solutions on the West Coast.''
Incentra Solutions, Inc. is a provider of complete IT and storage management solutions to enterprises and managed service providers in North America and Europe. Incentra's complete solution includes managed services, professional services, hardware and software products with the Company's First Call and Enhanced First Call support services, IT outsourcing solutions and financing options.
To learn more about Incentra Solutions, please visit: www.incentrasolutions.com.
For more information about Helio Solutions, Inc., please visit: www.heliosolutions.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, August 27 @ 09:30:23 EDT (627 reads)
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News: Dedicated Server, Colocation Firm, InetServices, Releases New Storage Solutions
Natick, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2007 - Dedicated server, managed server, and colocation services firm for small-to-medium size businesses, InetServices, has developed four new storage solution products, including a Windows Storage Cluster, designed to provide high-performance and availability.
Kevin Soendker, Chief Operating Officer remarked, ''While other hosting providers are simply focused on providing the cheapest low-end server, InetServices is focusing on providing Enterprise class services to small and medium size businesses at an affordable rate. We've seen such a significant growth in interest for large storage solutions including Windows SQL Clusters that we simply had to these demands. While we had been offering these services on a per request basis, we decided to be the first hosting company to provide these services directly from our website.''
Available Storage Solutions include:
1TB non-RAID NAS
1TB-2TB RAID NAS
1.7TB Direct Attached Storage
290GB-1.5TB Direct Attached Storage (Windows Cluster)
InetServices is a hosting service provider that offers Dedicated Servers, Managed Servers, Managed Colocation, among other hosting components. The company focus is small and mid-sized businesses that require high reliability, security, and 24 / 7 support, at cost-effective rates. InetServices offer a variety of web hosting, dedicated servers, and managed colocation packages to choose from with plenty of features and options designed around meeting your specific needs.
To learn more, please visit: www.inetservices.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, August 27 @ 09:19:33 EDT (624 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Think Partnership, Featured at Search Engine Strategies
Clearwater, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2007 - Web host, market communications and related Internet technologies firm, Think Partnership Inc., was recently featured at the Search Engine Strategies event in San Jose, through its Chief Technology Officer, John Linden's attendance as a panelist for the Search Marketers On Click Fraud session.
The panel explored issues and tactics related to click fraud concerns in a public session moderated by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, Vice President of Agency and Search Marketing for ExactTarget, Inc., which was comprised of the following additional search marketing professionals:
- Jessie Stricchiola, founder, Alchemist Media Inc.
- Tom Cuthbert, president and CEO, Click Forensics
- Jon Myers, director of search insight, Latitude Group
Mr. Linden remarked, ''This is a great opportunity for us to contribute to this ongoing, important topic in a public forum, and for us to present and discuss Think Partnership's unique approach of proactively fighting click fraud at the network level.''
Search Engine Strategies is a division of Incisive Media. The San Jose 2007 Conference and Expo 2007 hosted several thousand search industry gurus and marketers from around the globe, to share the latest insights on search engine marketing, search advertising and other related topics.
Each year marketers from novice to advanced get together to learn from search industry experts as well as representatives from top search engines themselves. This year featured keynote addresses from Ask.com and Google executives. Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone discussed the launch of Ask.com's new Ask3D interface and the challenges they face luring searchers away from their more trafficked peers. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google, shared insights into Google's moves in search, including recent changes to add more personalized and ''universal'' search results.
Attendees participated in engaging sessions broken out into specialized tracks for Beginners, Search, Organic Search, Social Media, Advertising and others. With more than 70 sessions for novice, intermediate and advanced search engine marketing professionals, SES San Jose provides a unique, lively forum for those intent on gaining knowledge in the burgeoning search industry to further career development, network and grow their businesses. This year's event featured dozens of four-star rated sessions evaluated as good or excellent by previous attendees, as well as many fresh new topics.
Incisive Media PLC is a specialist business information provider, based in the UK but with offices in North America, Hong Kong, India and Mainland China. The company's activities are currently built around ten core industry sectors - mortgages; marketing services; financial technology; retail investment; capital markets; risk management; insurance; legal services; private equity and photography. Information is provided via a wide range of channels--in print, in person and online. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE: INM).
Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC is the marketing services division of the company and incorporates leading websites Search Engine Watch, the ClickZ Network and their associated events series including Search Engine Strategies. These properties were acquired from Jupiter Media in 2005.
To learn more about the SES San Jose and other conferences in the series, please visit: www.searchenginestrategies.com.
For more information about Think Partnership, please visit: www.thinkpartnership.com.
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News: Web Hosting Firm, Affinity's Gate.com, Premieres Caribbean Cruise Promotion
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 24, 2007 - Web host, eCommerce and online marketing service provider for web professionals and small businesses, Affinity Internet's Gate.com, is offering a free two-night Caribbean cruise for two, to anyone who orders Windows web hosting through September 30, 2007.
Starting at $9.95/month, Gate.com Windows Web hosting is designed to allow for advanced applications. Built on a constantly updated ASP.NET platform, the four web hosting plans features include generous storage, traffic and email allowances, a 99.99% uptime guarantee and 24/7 technical support.
Through the end of next month, Gate.com sweetens the deal with a free two-night Regal Empress cruise for two for customers who purchase a Windows hosting plan. The cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Paradise Island, Bahamas includes:
- A comfortable stateroom
- All meals and snacks
- Live entertainment and shipboard activities
John Enright, Vice President of Sales and Marketing remarked, ''Gate.com is the leader in advanced Web hosting solutions because we know what the developer expects, and we deliver it. This is our way of showing our appreciation to customers for continuing to make Gate.com the top hosting company in the US among the web community.''
The cruise leaves from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The customer is responsible for transportation to and from Fort Lauderdale plus $59/person port taxes. Other restrictions apply. See official rules for details.
Gate.com's parent company, Affinity, provides more than 200,000 web professionals and small businesses the tools to develop, maintain, market and support their web presence. Affinity's brands include: ValueWeb, for web design, eCommerce hosting and online marketing solutions and Gate.com, UNIX and Windows web hosting services. Affinity's co-brand and private-label partner programs ar designed to enable service providers and Internet brands to extend value proposition to include feature-rich web sites, ecommerce and online marketing services and applications. Affinity's services are supported by its customer service ''success guides,'' with knowledgeable consultants serving small businesses growth and success.
Gate.com delivers hosting plans on one of the largest high-performance networks in the world. It was the first major hosting company to implement clustering technology across all of its hosting accounts and remains the only major hosting company to provide this technology at affordable prices. Located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the company offers domain names, email accounts, UNIX Web hosting, Windows Web hosting, Virtual Private Servers, Dedicated Servers and other web services.
Awards and Certifications for Affinity include:
- One of Inc.500's Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Nation for 2005
- 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500
- 2003 PC Magazines Editors Choice: Best eCommerce Solution
- 2000 PC Magazine's Editors Choice: Best eCommerce Solution
- Microsoft Certified Gold Partner
- Member of the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
- Google Certified Company
- ScanAlert's HackerSafe Certification
To learn more about the promotion, please visit: www.gate.com/promos/cruise.html.
For more information about Affinity Internet, please visit: www.affinity.com.
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News: Web.com Presents at Internet & Digital Media Conference
Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - August 24, 2007 - Web hosting
solutions firm, Web.com, Inc., recently presented at Needham's Second Annual Internet and Digital Media Conference in New York. Gonzalo Troncoso, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Web.com, and Kevin Carney, Chief Financial Officer of Website Pros, conducted a joint presentation.
A live broadcast of the presentation is available through the investor relations section of Web.com's website, for a limited time.
It is estimated that over 100 technology finance and engineering firms will participate in the event. Other presenting companies include: Road, Inc., Autodesk, Inc.Clean Harbors, Inc., 3D Systems Corporation, Avanex Corporation, Cogent Communications Group, Inc., 3PARdata, Inc., Avid Technology, Inc., Cogent Systems, Inc., Abio, Med Inc., Aviza Technology, Inc., Cognex Corporation, Accenture, Avocent Corp., Coherent, Inc., Acquicor Technology Inc., Axcelis Technologies Inc., Cohu, Inc., Actel Corporation, Axsun Technologies, Inc., Collectors Universe, Inc., Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd., AXT, Inc., Color Kinetics Incorporated, Actuate, Badger Meter, Inc., Columbus McKinnon Corporation, Adaptec Inc.Bankrate, Inc., Comtech Group, Inc., ADTRAN, Inc., Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc., Concurrent Computer Corporation, Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated, BelFuse Inc., Conexant Systems, Inc., Advanced Energy Industries, Inc., Bell Microproducts Inc., CONMED Corporation, Aehr Test Systems, Benchmark Electronics, Inc., Constant Contact, Aeroflex Incorporated, Biolase Technology, Inc., Corning Incorporated, AgaMatrix, Inc., Black Box Corporation, CoStar Group, Inc., Agilent Technologies, Inc.Bladelogic, Inc., .AirSpan Networks, Inc., BlueArc Corporation, CoWare, Inc., AIXTRON AGBookham, Inc., Cray Inc., Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., Bottomline Technologies, Inc., Credence Systems Corporation, Altair Engineering, Inc.Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., CTS Corporation, Alvarion Ltd., Brooks Automation Inc., Cubic CorpAmerican Ecology Corporation, BTU International, Inc., Cutera, Inc., American Science and Engineering, Inc., C and D Technologies, Inc., Cymer Inc.American Superconductor Corporation, Cabot Microelectronics Corp., Cynosure, AMIS Holdings, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Daktronics, Inc., ANADIGICS, Inc., CalAmp Corp.Datalink Corporation, Analogic Corporation, California Micro Devices Corporation, DataPath, Inc., Anaren, Inc., Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., DemandTec, Inc., Andrew Corp., Camtek, Digital River, Inc., ANSYS, Inc., Candela Corporation, Digitas Inc., Applied Biosystems Group, Captaris, Inc., Dot Hill Systems Corp.Applied Materials, Inc., Cardiac Science Corporation, EFJ, Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Carrier Access Corporation, Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., ARRIS Group, Inc., Cascade Microtech Inc., Electroglas Inc.. ArthroCare Corporation, Cbeyond, Inc., Emageon Inc., ASM International N.V.C-COR Incorporated, EMCORE CorpAspen Technology, Inc., Cedar Point Communications, Inc., Emptoris, Inc., Astro Med, Inc., Centrality Communications Inc., EMRISE Corporation, Asyst Technologies, Inc., Ceradyne, Inc., EMS Technologies, Inc., athenahealth, Inc., CEVA Inc., Emulex Corp., Atheros Communications, Inc., ChipMOS Technologies, Ltd., Endeca Technologies Inc., Atmel Corporation, CIRCOR International, Inc., Endwave Corporation, ATMI, Inc., Cirrus Logic, Inc., Entegris, Inc., AuthenTec, Inc. and CLARCOR Inc.
Needham and Company, LLC is a nation investment banking and asset management firm focused primarily on serving emerging growth industries and investors. Founded in 1985 by George A. Needham, Raymond H. Godfrey and David K. Townes, the firm is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Menlo Park and San Francisco, California. Needham and Company's principal activities are public and private financings; corporate finance advisory services, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; equity research; sales and trading primarily for institutional investors; and asset management through public and private funds. Since its founding, the firm has acted as lead or co-manager in more than 450 public offerings, including 145 IPOs, raising in excess of $32.3 billion, and as placement agent on over 65 private offerings.
Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., offers do-it-yourself and professional website design, website hosting, ecommerce, web marketing, developer hosting, and e-mail resources, since 1995.More than 4 million websites have been built using Web.com's proprietary tools, services and patented technology. As one of the longest-standing leaders in the website hosting industry, Web.com offers proprietary, point-and-click technologies and expert support professionals to ensure simplicity and ease-of-use at every step of the process. Distribution Partners include: Yellow Pages directories, broadband services, telecommunications, retail, and others. Strategic distribution partners include: R.H. Donnelley, Dex Media, EarthLink, British Telecom, Terra Lycos, Thomas Publishing, Ambassador Yellow Pages, Hawaiian Telcom, Encore Software, Office Depot, CompUSA, Amazon.com, and Monster Worldwide. Technology Partners include: Cisco, Compaq, Foundry Networks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Lycos, Macromedia, Miva, Microsoft, Network Associates, Openwave, PayPal, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Staples, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Verizon, VERITAS, Yahoo, and WebTrends.
Web.com has been honored with the following accolades:
- Deloitte, Technology Fast 50 Winner, 2005 and 2006
- Excellence in Technology 2005 Awards – Ecommerce, SmallBusinessComputing.com
- # 12 on Deloitte’s 2004 Technology Fast 500
- #1 Web Design, Development and Services Company 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle
- Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award 2003
- Who's Who in Technology 2003 and 2004, Atlanta Business Chronicle
To learn more about Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.
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