INCOMPAS Fall 2017 - Day 1 Show Daily

www. INCOMPAS .org « 9 » www.bekapublishing.com DAY 1 3 65 Data Centers (Networking Table 3), a provider of data center solutions for carrier, content and cloud customers in eight strategic markets, has acquired Broadband One LLC, which does business as Host.net. A data center services provider in the south- east Florida markets of Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, the acquired facilities have approxi- mately 62,000 square feet of floor space, 8,000 square feet of business continuity space, 4.5 MW of power and 330 miles of fiber providing direct connectivity to the NAP of the Americas in Miami with under one millisecond of latency. In addition, the acquired business maintains more than 30 network points of presence (PoPs) on an owned nationwide transit network with 330 peering partners. When added to 365’s connec- tivity-rich data center in Tampa, the company now provides customers comprehensive edge data center options across the Sunshine State. 365’s footprint now covers 10 markets with other data centers in Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia and New York, with a combined 195,000 square feet and 13 MW of power in place to serve customers. 365’s data centers are SSAE 16, SOC 2, PCI, HIPPA, ISAE 3402, and VISA compliant. “This follow-on acquisition, within just six months of purchasing the 365 Data Centers platform, provides significant financial scale for 365 and accel- erates our strategy of broadening the company’s customer and services base with more than 500 enterprise customers and a portfolio of scalable, retail and wholesale network, IP-blend, remote disaster recovery-as-a-service, virtual cloud compute and storage, and business continuity product offer- ings,” said Bob DeSantis, CEO of 365 Data Centers. The objective of 365’s equity sponsors (Chirisa Holdings Inc., Lumerity Capital and Longboat Advisors) at the time of the initial acquisition was to transform the predominantly colocation and connectivity-rich platform business into a hybrid data center services provider that would appeal to enterprise customers in addition to its existing carrier, content and cloud customer base. DeSantis added, “With this transaction, we have re-positioned 365 Data Centers to provide customers in all 10 of our markets with enhanced services, including nationwide metro Ethernet, long-haul and MPLS network/transport services, robust blended IP choices, direct, low- latency connectivity to the NAP of the Americas, and cloud/colocation hybrid solutions through smart cloud architecture and a self-provisioning customer portal. The high-touch and customer- focused Host.net network engineers, systems engineers, sales engineers, NOC, provisioning, sales and operating personnel joining 365 will drive these service offerings across all of 365’s markets and easily assimilate into the highly competent and professional 365 team.” Jason Katz, Host.net’ s CEO, will join 365 as vice president and chief administrative officer, reporting to DeSantis. In this role, he will continue as the company’s point of contact for customers, vendors and other relationship partners in the Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale markets. Host.net was sold to 365 by Novacap, one of Canada’s leading private equity firms. Ted Mocarski, senior partner at Novacap, said, “It has been a real pleasure partnering with Jason and his team and we are happy to see the exciting possibilities that Host.net will have as part of 365 Data Centers. The eight additional markets provide geographic diversity that is of great strategic and operational value to existing Host.net customers.’’ p 365 Data Centers Acquires Host.net