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CentriLogic, a global provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting, outsourcing and advanced solutions based in Canada, announced that high three new executives have joined the company. The enhanced team of senior management would improve CentriLogic's ability to accelerate its current growth trajectory.

The news comes on the heels of the expansion of its CentriLogic Lenoir data center in North Carolina and the acquisition of Virgin Islands of the US company data operator center. The new senior appointments include:

• Brian Dimoff - COO . He has 20 years of management and operations experience and was the co-founder of ViaWest (now part of Shaw Communications), one of the largest private co-location and managed services firms in North America. Brian Dimoff serve as COO, responsible for managing and leading global operations teams CentriLogic
• Robert Levine -. CFO . He has over 15 years of experience in private equity and investment banking, including working with telecommunications companies, Internet infrastructure and media on financial policy issues, M & A, and operations raising capital. Robert Levine is the Chief Financial Officer and manage all financial development activities and corporate
• Charlotte Staats -. VP, Human Resources . She has 17 years of experience in human resources, with seven years in the data center and managed services industries. Charlotte Staats be responsible for the post-acquisition integration, management team / development and organizational design.

Charlotte Staats, new Vice President of CentriLogic, Human Resources

"during this period of growth, we felt that it was essential to invest in the quality of leadership that could take our business to the next level, "said Robert Offley, president and CEO of CentriLogic ." with their industry experience I am confident that Brian, Robert and Charlotte will help us to successfully navigate this new phase of our company, as we have now entered new markets and we added the IT outsourcing more specialized and cloud services 'accommodation."

Caribbean and South American markets

CentriLogic expects to exceed $ 26 million in revenue by year end , which represents a growth of over 30% compared to 2013. Rapid revenue growth is attributable to new customers worldwide, including Kodak Alaris, Home Properties, Alcatel-Lucent, and growing Canadian customer including DHX Media, WIND Mobile, Publicis, Cogniciti and Ontario Tire Stewardship.

Inside the CentriLogic data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.

other sources of growth include the acquisition in August 2014 Adveniat Corporation, the US Virgin Islands, allowing CentriLogic to serve customers in the Caribbean and South America regions. In September 2014, CentriLogic announced the launch of its unit Advanced Technology Business, providing virtualization, data center consolidation and managed IT solutions to customers worldwide.

CentriLogic plans to continue to invest in Canada by increasing its staff of employees in Canada by 30% until 2015. The company expects a 50% increase in staff worldwide by the end 2015

Steadfast, a managed hosting provider based in Chicago, with services including managed hosting to cloud, dedicated servers, colocation, hybrid hosting and disaster recovery services, announced that Matt Laskowski has joined its team as Director channel, north east.

"Matt brings 10 years of experience in the northeast, from SunGard and Windstream, where he managed the channel relationships and sales, and business development," said said Joe Bong, COO of Steadfas t "Matt opens up a whole new market for Steadfast. he shares our history, and we differentiate on the market. "

" The IO Service in Edison, NJ is jaw dropping, "said Matt Laskowski.

Steadfast has fully redundant data centers in Chicago and Edison, New Jersey. The center of company data in Edison, NJ includes more than 830,000 square feet of floor space and would be able to support Tier 3 redundancy and reliability. Businesses in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are among those who use the facility.

"The North is ready for change," said Matt Laskowski . "The IO Service in Edison, NJ is jaw dropping. There is no such thing available in the area, which is a competitive advantage immediately. Steadfast is the hosting service and infrastructure provider only managed to having an actual physical presence on site in the hotel in Edison. companies are tired of old and carbon copy data centers. the modular installation adds layers of security and scalability that enterprises are looking of ".

Three Twenty-one Capital Partners, Inc. (321 Capital) investment in private practice banking, has been exclusively retained for a buyer for a colocation and managed hosting located in the southeastern United States. The company had a combined flow and revenue growth in 2014 of $ 6.25 million, with EBITDA of $ 2.4 million.

The company, founded 20 years ago, has grown to become a complete colocation service provider, managed hosting and more recently, managed cloud services. The company would benefit from access to some of the least expensive energy costs in the country and is located in a growing market. A team of management "experienced and dedicated" has been established for many years and is ready to continue post-transaction

The company operates two plants. lease and property. The data center facilities are within 1 mile of each other and have access to the fiber AT & T, Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, Time Warner Cable and Dukenet Communications. The managed hosting provider recently achieved SSAE16 certification.

Three Twenty-One Capital Partners seeks now, immediate qualified investors to buy the company "well established".

Three Twenty-One Capital Partners , headquartered in the metropolitan area of ​​Baltimore-Washington, is a private investment bank with over 30 years maintenance experience middle market, with a specific concentration or family "" situations floors. Collectively, 321 Capital team has bought, sold, invested in, or consulted with more than 500 companies, with over $ 7 billion in transaction value in virtually every industry imaginable.

based on a protection service provider cloud DDoS, DOSarrest Internet Security, announced the launch of a new global program Channel Partner. The program is designed to enable partners to offer the full range of DDoS protection services DOSarrest.

cloud computing services based entirely managed DOSarrest include DDoS Protection for client websites, the load on the base layer 7 Balancing cloud, Web Firewall Application (WAF), vulnerability testing and optimization (VTO) and external DOSarrest service monitoring (DEMS).

"We received a number of requests from hosting providers, VARs, consultants and our existing customer base interested in reselling our services DDoS protection fully managed," said Brian Mohammed, director DOSarrest sales and marketing . "We are very pleased to launch our partner program to meet the constant demand to provide this crucial and well maintained add-on service for our partners. We wanted to be able to provide an aggressive commission plan on many levels, while offering the protection of a very reliable website and security for our partners to add to their portfolios. "

DOSarrest Internet Security was founded in 07 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The cloud protection from DDoS service provider has a global customer base that includes e-commerce websites in a wide range of industries, including financial, health, media, education and government.

peak hosting, a hosting provider managed the presence of data centers across the USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, announced the formation of a new management team to drive the company's growth trajectory. John Biggi is now promoted to Chief Operations Officer (COO) to president of the company, while Deb Steele joined Hosting Hellmer-tip as the new COO and Jon Bulow joined the company as vice president of engineering.

Before joining the tip of accommodation in November 2014, John Biggi has held executive positions at Nike, InFocus, DuPont and more.

"The last 18 months have been phenomenal Peak Hosting we grew revenue 340 percent and staff by 180 percent, and we're not slowing down," said Jeffrey Papen, CEO and founder, Peak Hosting . "I make additions to the leadership to support our continued growth and execute my vision of a company that focuses on its employees first."

John is Biggi now promoted to Chief Operations Officer (COO) to president of the company.

"John brings to peak Hosting a history of building highly functional businesses that revolve around the implementation of values irrefutable fundamental, " added Mr. Papen ." He shares my view that a successful business can be built on the principle of putting people before profits and can run in a way that delights our customers and allows our staff. The core values ​​he brought to the table where join our team in November are already permeate all of our DNA. "

M .. Papen continue as CEO and visionary leader of the company." Give the reigns to John will focus on what I do best, working with customers, "said Papen. "John and our new exec management team collectively represent critical functions at peak ongoing success of accommodation."

Nike, Fortune 100

After more than two decades Nike, Deb Steele joined Hosting Hellmer-peak as Director of Operations. More recently, at Nike, Hellmer-Steele served Executive Director of Global Corporate Services division of Nike . Hellmer-Steele have a proven track record of successful operations leading organizations over the past 35 years.

Jon Bulow joined as vice president of engineering . Throughout his career, Bulow has built and sold several consulting firms in IT where he provided the full range of technical support to customers Fortune 100. Peak Hosting, he will lead all engineering efforts focusing on capacity building for guests.

"I am able to recruit Deb and Jon to join the Hosting Pic exec team as they were excited by the Peak Hosting core values ​​and the possibility of being unused in the way they perform their new roles, "said John Biggi . "Peak Hosting hiring rapidly, and our team will be able to put the structure in place that will support continued growth while providing our employees with new opportunities and our customers even better service."

[support ManageEngine, a real-time monitoring of supplier of the virtual server and IT management, announced for Microsoft Exchange monitoring in the last version of its web-based reporting tool Exchange, Exchange Reporter more.

Exchange Reporter over ManageEngine is a reporting, analysis and auditing solution for Web-based Exchange servers. With its 100+ reports, software will provide a deep insight into all aspects of the messaging infrastructure sharing.

Available immediately, the new feature facilitates real-time monitoring of key activities within the Exchange environment and provides administrative insights into the organization. Accordingly, ManageEngine of users would now be able to analyze the exchange activities with greater efficiency and develop strategies for managing Microsoft Exchange effective

The main features of the solution ManageEngine Exchange surveillance would be as follows :.

• to monitor three key elements of the Microsoft Exchange environment: Database Availability Groups (DAG), servers and databases
• Runs individual PowerShell command (cmdlet) for each event or activity that occurs within the jurisdiction of the tool Stock Exchange
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• reports each activity recorded in a manually configurable collection interval
• Uses dashboard to display exchange data contained in the relevant parameters such as latency of messages, exchange search time MAPI latency and much more to help analyze trends in exchange activities

"the new Exchange monitoring feature allows Exchange components real-time monitoring and presents data in a global format," said Manikandan Thangaraj, director of program management, ManageEngine . "The user-friendly interface facilitates easy configuration data collection, contributing to the production of live data and historical monitoring. This function allows you to monitor critical components of your Exchange environment. And in the case of a component compromised, the user receives an immediate alert. "

Flexera software, a provider of software licensing, compliance solutions and installation for application producers and enterprises, announced vulnerability Intelligence Manager 2016 - the latest version of its software product vulnerability management. The new version would improve the ability of companies to manage and control the complete software vulnerability threats in their areas of entire application.

New capabilities in vulnerability intelligence manager 2016 include information concerning possible vulnerabilities that does not pass the validation criteria by Secunia Research, and are therefore not classified as having an impact on safety. It would be beneficial to customers who need to document decisions not to act on potential vulnerabilities for compliance or auditing.

Another new feature allows importing software inventories from Microsoft System Center 2012 correlate vulnerability intelligence with lists of assets, reducing the time needed to mitigate the threat and exposure to incidents and infractions

"We are very pleased to successfully launch this new version of the manager vulnerability Intelligence -. Secunia formerly a product - branded Flexera Software "said Maureen Polte, vice president of product management for vulnerability management software to Flexera software ." the quality of intelligence vulnerability Secunia Research is issued by the backbone of the product, and this release demonstrates Flexera Software's commitment to invest, innovate and deliver intelligence vulnerability solutions leader in the business market have come to expect and demand. "

Software Vulnerability Management

Covering over 50,000 software systems and applications , vulnerability intelligence Manager 2016 provides comprehensive intelligence on vulnerabilities software available for organizations. Thanks to check the vulnerability of intelligence covering all applications and systems across all platforms, it would effectively reduce the attack surface for cyber criminals, drive priorities through manipulation of intelligence, flow, notes alerts, and document the actions to mitigate the risk of costly breaches.

"in recent years, cybercrime against businesses, organizations and government institutions has become a recognized threat to security, and the importance of managing software vulnerabilities is the safety aspect receiving acute attention in organizations worldwide, "said Santeri Kangas, vice president and chief architect of enterprise products at Flexera Software . "Software vulnerabilities are by far the entry point for most common cyber attackers have access to the IT infrastructure of an organization. Therefore, it is necessary to receive vulnerability intelligence for all products that make up software infrastructure of the organization for security professionals to assess, prioritize and mitigate risk to the business. vulnerability Intelligence Manager 2016 is the only product that can provide verified information on the vulnerability of all systems and applications the environment, which effectively reduces the attack surface for cyber criminals. "

UK-based cloud iomart (AIM: IOM) has made its second acquisition in 2015 the acquisition of United Communications Limited which trades as "United Hosting. United Hosting was founded in 1998 and provides managed hosting, dedicated servers and hosting services and areas for about 6,500 customers, most of whom are small shared web companies.

iomart has acquired the entire issued share capital for a total consideration of up to £ 11.0 million, with £ 7.5 million paid in cash at the end. Another £ 3.5 million is contingent on United Hosting reach EBIT of agreed performance targets in the years to April 2016 and 2017.

United Hosting is based in Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire , where its main data center facility is located. It also leases data center space in London and Dallas, Texas and has a support function based in India.

This is the second acquisition of the year for iomart. In June, the Group acquired SystemsUp , a computer consulting firm specializing in the design and provision of public cloud hosting solutions.

Matt and Simon Wallis

"consistent with past acquisitions of iomart, United Hosting is a company in full profitable growth which services reflect those we offer, "said Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart ." as such, the company is well within our acquisition criteria and will be a valuable asset for the Group. "

the co-founders of United Hosting, Matt and Simon Wallis brothers, will remain with the company.

"This is a huge opportunity to develop and grow the business," said Matt Wallis, Director of United Hosting . "We are now backed by a leading managed hosting providers and cloud services in the UK, and a company with all the regulatory and financial strength that comes from being listed on the London Stock Exchange . After meeting with Angus and his management team, we believe they can take us to the next level of success. "

Based on Glasgow, Scotland , the iomart partners with leading vendors such as VMware, Amazon, EMC, Microsoft, Asigra, Arbor Dell to offer customers a whole managed so centralized, controlled and completely agnostic hybrid, private and public cloud hosting platforms.

managed hosting provider Hostway has made a number of key executive movements during the past year. The hiring of two new executives would further strengthen the leadership of the list of Hostway. The company welcomed David Newton on the role of Vice President, Service Operations and Eric Milhizer as Vice President, Marketing.

"Our customers need reliable and flexible solutions specific to their needs that do not break the bank," said Bob Boles, CEO of Hostway . " this is what we offer Hostway - managed solutions that iT can rely on to meet their needs today and in the future. David and Eric were both world class expertise and experience to offer the best service and solutions for the right customers. "

Eric Milhizer, the new vice president of marketing at Hostway.

A specialist in network operations, David Newton has spent the last 11 years with Terremark / Verizon, where he led operations and governance and compliance, serving in executive positions overseeing offers virtual and cloud computing platform, a shared service, OSS and administration, and the global engineering infrastructure.

M .. Newton's background in operations, product development and customer service make him uniquely qualified to ensure that customers appreciate the Hostway reliability, service and support they deserve. Newton will concentrate on 24/7 NOC operations, product delivery and reliability, and excellent support staff.

Eric Milhizer is a marketing expert with over 20 years of marketing strategy and practical expertise under his belt in the mobile industry and competitive networking. Driven to get the right message to the right audience, Mr. Milhizer will focus on achieving the right customers with the right solutions and Hostway can provide advantages to scale.

David Newton, the new Vice President of Hostway service operations.

Previously as CMO at TruConnect, one of the most dynamic mobile virtual network operators in the United States, he led a complete rebranding of the company. Before that, while serving as VP, Direct to Consumer Marketing at MetroPCS , he was responsible for driving revenue through the mass scale of the business, targeted direct marketing.

"As we focus our strategy and services specifically around meeting the high reliability of our target customers needs, we are very pleased to have these two experts on board," added Mr. . Boles . "It is a crucial opportunity for our company, and we are ready to take the lead as a partner of choice Managed Cloud markets we serve."