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Hosted Solutions Goes Hybrid, Links Clouds
November 17th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Managed hosting provider Hosted Solutions today expanded its Stratus Trusted Cloud offering, adding a hybrid option for companies that want to blend public and private cloud offerings. Stratus was introduced earlier this year, and can be used as either a multi-tenant infrastructure platform and a private/dedicated cloud.The Stratus hybrid cloud option allows customers to cross-connect their existing back-end resources such as databases and other supporting applications to the Stratus Trusted Cloud, where they can host front-end computing power and other resources like network, firewall, load balancing and web servers. Customers can also cross connect Stratus cloud computing resources directly into their environment to handle overflow situations such as seasonal spikes that require excess compute capacity.
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Lee Technologies Wins $7 Million Contract
September 24th, 2009 : Rich MillerLee Technologies has been selected by Hosted Solutions to manage and execute the data center build out and re-design at its Charlotte Metro facility, the companies said today. The project, scheduled for completion in November, is valued at $7 million.
Hosted Solutions, which provides data center and managed hosting services, is expanding its 10,000 square foot facility by an additional 5,000 square feet to make room for future growth, and is also upgrading the facility’s power capacity.
“After working with Lee Technologies on the strategic build out of our Raleigh facility, we were fully confident their team was ideally suited to manage, execute and deliver the expansion and re-design of Hosted Solutions’ Charlotte Metro facility on time and on budget,” said Rich Lee, Founder and CEO, Hosted Solutions. “Our customers demand data centers engineered for maximum security and 100% uptime, and Lee Technologies enables us to deliver uninterrupted services and availability.”
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Hosted Solutions Targets App Hosting
September 14th, 2009 : Rich MillerHosted Solutions has expanded its suite of application hosting and management capabilities, the company said today, including support for leading business applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, WebSphere, WebLogic and JBOSS. The move helped the company build upon its core colocation and managed services offerings, and work more closely with companies interested in outsourcing in-house applications.
“By moving deeper into the stack and providing a greater range of services, such as applications hosting and support, we deliver greater value to our clients,” said Christopher “Kip” Turco, Hosted Solutions’ Chief Operating Officer. “They, in turn, are far more likely to regard us as their trusted partner, ready to help them solve a full scale of business challenges. We’ve seen a significant level of interest in this offering from our customers.”
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Hosted Solutions Launches Cloud Platform
June 8th, 2009 : Rich MillerCan cloud computing help regional providers compete for customers on a national basis? That’s among the ambitions for Hosted Solutions, which today is introducing the Stratus Trusted Cloud, a cloud platform with a “four nines” service level agreement (SLA) designed to attract enterprise production systems.Hosted Solutions started life as a local provider focused on the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, with headquarters in Cary and a data center in Raleigh. The company expanded into Boston in 2006, and was acquired by ABRY Partners last year. The new ownership has helped Hosted Solutions expand or upgrade its five data centers, setting the stage for today’s announcement of a cloud computing service.
“We believe this is a product that helps us expand beyond the typical data center managed hosting offering,” said Kip Turco, the Chief Operating Officer for Hosted Solutions, who said he expected the Stratus Trusted Cloud to expand the company’s customer footprint. “This makes it much easier for us to sell at a national level.”
The Stratus Trusted Cloud features a “massively scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure … with built-in high availability and automated resource balancing,” the company says. The platform will be supported by Cisco’s new Nexus switches as well as hardware and software from VMware, Sun, EMC, F5 and Juniper.
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Hosted Solutions Upgrades Boston Facility
April 13th, 2009 : Rich MillerHosted Solutions has completed more than $6 million in upgrades to its Boston data center, with improvements in power, cooling, back-up power and security. With the upgrades, Hosted Solutions has begun offering a suite of managed services including application management, managed replication, disaster recovery, load balancing and advanced monitoring.
“We have seen tremendous momentum with our customer growth throughout New England,” said Mike Lee, Regional Manager for Hosted Solutions. “Given current market conditions, companies today require a trusted partner who can provide them with services across all areas of IT, rather than simply providing data center space or point solutions. Increasingly, companies recognize both the immediate and ongoing value of having a trusted partner provide them with the full range of outsourced technology services.
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Hosted Solutions Powers Tax App
May 7th, 2008 : Rich MillerHosted Solutions has won a multi-year hosting deal with Tax Technology Services (TTS), which provides sales tax compliance services. TTS will use Hosted Solutions’ data centers to power CertCapture, a service that helps Fortune 1,000 companies track and pay taxes in multiple states, storing Sales Tax Exemption Certificates to a database for analysis, and protecting them in the event of an audit.
“TTS has truly developed an industry changing solution that enables large enterprises with multi state operations to easily digitize and store tax related certificates that have been fully vetted by qualified tax professionals without investing in software, hardware or IT support,” said Brian Baker, Vice President of Sales with Hosted Solutions.
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Hosted Solutions Discusses Sale to ABRY
April 10th, 2008 : Rich MillerHosted Solutions CEO Rich Lee says his company’s $140 million acquisition by ABRY Partners will allow it to expand into new markets and new services. “We’ve grown in a controlled, strategic manner,” Lee says. “We’ve doubled our revenue each year.” Which is why private equity firms are buying regional data center players. This video runs about 6 minutes.
For additional background and details, see our story about ABRY’s acquisition of Hosted Solutions, as well as the recent expansion of ABRY portfolio company CyrusOne, which has added a Dallas data center.
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Hosted Solutions Acquired for $140 Million
April 9th, 2008 : Rich MillerRegional data center specialist Hosted Solutions has been acquired by ABRY Partners for $140 million, the two companies announced Tuesday. The deal is the second acquisition of a regional provider by ABRY, a Boston-based private equity firm that bought Houston’s CyrusOne last July. The Hosted Solutions management team will continue to lead the company from the company’s Raleigh, NC headquarters.
“This is an incredible milestone for our business,” said Rich Lee, founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions. “Partnering with ABRY Partners provides us with the capital to fulfill our vision and accelerates our strategic growth plans.”
ABRY has completed more than $21 billion in transactions, and has invested in expansion at CyrusOne, which has added space to its Houston facility and just announced a new Dallas data center.
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Hosted Solutions Adds Charlotte Data Center
January 24th, 2008 : Rich MillerManaged hosting provider Hosted Solutions has opened a second data center in Charlotte, adding 7,600 square feet of raised floor space at 125 North Myers, a multi-tenant facility owned by Digital Realty Trust. The new data center expands Hosted Solutions’ presence in Charlotte, where it has an existing data center on Rose Lake Drive. The company recently completed an expansion of its data center space in Raleigh.
“The opening of Charlotte’s second data center is a testament of Hosted Solutions commitment to grow strategically in our current markets while giving our customers the personal relationship of a small company and the resources of an enterprise organization,” said Rich Lee, founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions.
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