Jan 8, 2009 : UK2 Group Acquires Virtual Internet
📅 - Just months after buying Australian web host Dotable.com (dotable.com), web hosting organisation UK2 Group (http://www.uk2group.com) has completed its acquisition of UK-based Virtual Internet (vi.net 👉 Comentários totais: 5
🙌 Classificação média: 7.6 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 4
👎 Comentários ruins: 1
👈 Respostas oficiais: 1), an Internet service provider for high-availability managed hosting products.
Filling a strategic role for growing UK2's footprint in the UK market, acquiring 1999-founded VI will also help expand VI's leading services in both UK and the US markets, according to UK2's Thursday announcement.
"Our business has been built on delivering outstanding customer service through a highly motivated team of exceptional people," outgoing VI managing director Peter Rees said in a statement. "I am confident that the acquisition by UK2 will allow the customer to feel confident about VI's future going forward and will offer the team the opportunity to build the business into a market dominating brand."
UK2 Group will continue to operate VI as a separate brand, similar to others in a long line of recent acquisitions including WingSix (wingsix.com 👉 Comentários totais: 1
🙌 Classificação média: 1 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 0
👎 Comentários ruins: 1
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0), midPhase (midphase.com 👉 Comentários totais: 22
🙌 Classificação média: 2.5 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 3
👎 Comentários ruins: 19
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0) and Stargate (stargate.com).
UK2.net managing director Martin Baker assured VI customers UK2 that we intend to continue to deliver the products and service levels they associate with VI.net said in a statement, "[I] can assure the . I have been very impressed with the VI team and am looking forward to working with them to build the business in the UK and the US." Baker will be assuming managing director role at VI.
On Thursday, UK2 also announced that it will be introducing a new cloud service called VPS.net (vps.net 👉 Comentários totais: 20
🙌 Classificação média: 2.1 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 2
👎 Comentários ruins: 18
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0) across the UK2 group, which is expected to be a major addition to VI's offerings.
In October 2000, VI became the first public UK company to gain ICANN accreditation. VI also gained notoriety when it introduced "secure" shared hosting packages, which addressed the security and resilience needs of small business websites.
No stranger to management changes, in May 2003, VI was acquired by Norwegian hosting provider ActiveISP. Shortly after, in 2006, Virtual Internet re-launched following a management buyout by staff and management, now with a renewed focus on dedicated and managed server customers.
🙌 Classificação média: 7.6 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 4
👎 Comentários ruins: 1
👈 Respostas oficiais: 1), an Internet service provider for high-availability managed hosting products.
Filling a strategic role for growing UK2's footprint in the UK market, acquiring 1999-founded VI will also help expand VI's leading services in both UK and the US markets, according to UK2's Thursday announcement.
"Our business has been built on delivering outstanding customer service through a highly motivated team of exceptional people," outgoing VI managing director Peter Rees said in a statement. "I am confident that the acquisition by UK2 will allow the customer to feel confident about VI's future going forward and will offer the team the opportunity to build the business into a market dominating brand."
UK2 Group will continue to operate VI as a separate brand, similar to others in a long line of recent acquisitions including WingSix (wingsix.com 👉 Comentários totais: 1
🙌 Classificação média: 1 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 0
👎 Comentários ruins: 1
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0), midPhase (midphase.com 👉 Comentários totais: 22
🙌 Classificação média: 2.5 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 3
👎 Comentários ruins: 19
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0) and Stargate (stargate.com).
UK2.net managing director Martin Baker assured VI customers UK2 that we intend to continue to deliver the products and service levels they associate with VI.net said in a statement, "[I] can assure the . I have been very impressed with the VI team and am looking forward to working with them to build the business in the UK and the US." Baker will be assuming managing director role at VI.
On Thursday, UK2 also announced that it will be introducing a new cloud service called VPS.net (vps.net 👉 Comentários totais: 20
🙌 Classificação média: 2.1 / 10
👍 Bons comentários: 2
👎 Comentários ruins: 18
👈 Respostas oficiais: 0) across the UK2 group, which is expected to be a major addition to VI's offerings.
In October 2000, VI became the first public UK company to gain ICANN accreditation. VI also gained notoriety when it introduced "secure" shared hosting packages, which addressed the security and resilience needs of small business websites.
No stranger to management changes, in May 2003, VI was acquired by Norwegian hosting provider ActiveISP. Shortly after, in 2006, Virtual Internet re-launched following a management buyout by staff and management, now with a renewed focus on dedicated and managed server customers.
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