Toronto-based employees join Hostway to help expand its marketshare and capabilities with Ingram’s CloudBlue platform
AUSTIN, TX – MAY 23, 2018 — Hostway, a leading managed cloud hosting provider and specialist in compliant hybrid and multi-cloud hosting solutions, today announced its acquisition of the Toronto-based MyHosting.com and Mail2Web lines of business from Ingram Micro. Under the terms of the deal, the MyHosting.com brand, customers and key employees join Hostway; Hostway continues to operate and evolve the MyHosting brand, products and platform.
Hostway plans to leverage the skillset and experience of the MyHosting.com team members to further bolster its capabilities with Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue Automation platforms and will incorporate the platform more broadly in both its direct and wholesale channels.
“We are honored to have the talented and experienced MyHosting.com team members join our family of employees at Hostway and to expand our footprint in Canada with an office in Toronto in addition to our existing location in downtown Vancouver,” said John Enright, SVP and General Manager at Hostway. “We look forward to building upon the innovative products and features the MyHosting.com team has deployed on the CloudBlue platform, and to providing its loyal base of direct customers and resellers with the very best service.”
“For the past 20 years, Hostway has been a dominant player in enabling the largest communications companies in North America to deliver a wide variety of value-added services to millions of subscribers,” said Emil Sayegh, President and CEO of Hostway. “The acquisition of MyHosting.com and our partnership with Ingram Micro, in conjunction with the power and flexibility of the CloudBlue platform, further strengthen and diversify our automation capabilities. Automation platforms like CloudBlue – when combined with our passionate support team, experienced system operations team and skilled system integrators – make us the partner of choice for telecom and cable companies in need of turnkey solutions to offer additional value added services to their customers.”
“Hostway has been a valued, long-term partner of Ingram Micro, and this transaction builds further on our joint commitment to support the business requirements of our customers and the profitable growth of our respective businesses,” said Nimesh Dave, Executive Vice President Global Cloud Computing at Ingram Micro. “Our CloudBlue Automation platform is an excellent gateway supporting the rapidly growing demand for cloud-based solutions, one that enables leading service providers like Hostway to rapidly deploy and scale a wide variety of value-added services for their direct customers and partners. Hostway’s proven track record of providing excellent service offers an exceptional experience for both the MyHosting.com customer base and the talented employees that are joining to the Hostway team.”
About Hostway Services
Hostway Services, Inc. is the world’s most trusted managed compliant hosting provider, delivering managed cloud infrastructure and application hosting solutions for telecommunication and cable companies, as well as software companies including healthcare, SaaS and e-commerce focused organizations. Its team of engineers in North America, Europe, and Asia deliver reliable, secure and scalable web hosting, email hosting, private cloud, managed cloud and hybrid cloud hosting solutions to thousands of customers across ten geographically diverse SSAE 16 and ISO 27001 data centers around the world while ensuring strict compliance such as PCI and HIPAA. At Hostway, every customer interaction is treated as an opportunity to develop a long-term relationship based on trust. Visit http://hostway.com for more information.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of Technology™. It delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. Unrivaled agility, deep market insights and the trust and dependability that come from decades of proven relationships, set Ingram Micro apart and ahead. More at www.ingrammicro.com.
Today Hostway announced the acquisition of the Toronto-based MyHosting.com and Mail2Web lines of business from Ingram Micro. The MyHosting.com and Mail2Web brand, customers and key employees are joining Hostway as part of this acquisition. To see the press release, visit: https://www.hostway.com/press-releases/hostway-acquires-myhosting-com-ingram-micro/
All of us here at Hostway are pleased to welcome MyHosting.com and Mail2Web customers and staff members to our extended family.
What to Expect
If you are a MyHosting.com customer, you can expect to see significant improvements in performance and reliability as we implement a series of investments in network and system infrastructure upgrades. You’ll also notice enhancements in support as we transition from the current third party support provider to our in-house team of dedicated support agents, many of whom have more than a decade of experience going the extra mile for customers.
If you are a Hostway customer, you’ll also see a series of enhancements as we incorporate some of the amazing technologies developed by the MyHosting.com team and Ingram Micro across our hosting platforms – especially our VPS product lines.
Our plan is to build upon the innovative products and features the talented MyHosting.com team has deployed on the CloudBlue automation platform, and incorporate the platform broadly to direct and wholesale customers. Combined with our passionate support team, experienced systems operations team and skilled systems integrator, this strengthens our automation capabilities and our ability to offer additional value added services to customers and partners.
Hello, Toronto!
Finally, we’re also proud to be adding a second office in Canada in the great city of Toronto. Our new Toronto location joins our existing office and data center in downtown Vancouver, which has been a key part our DNA here at Hostway for more than 15 years. Hostway along with its subsidiaries and sister companies now have a presence in Austin, Chicago, Hanover, San Antonio, Seoul, Sofia, Tampa, Toronto and Vancouver. We are also expanding our team in each of these locations – if you have a passion for technology and a drive to help customers succeed, please check out our open positions.
Look for more information about these and other enhancements in the coming weeks!
John Enright
General Manager
Since the early days of the Internet of Things (IoT), the movement has come a long way, with the focus shifting from simple internet connectivity to full-scale digital ecosystems. Now, ensuring the interconnectivity of devices—especially in mobile environments—is a must, and IT professionals are challenged to make their solutions efficient, available, and secure.
Along with these requirements, it’s important for these leaders to adapt to the always-evolving needs of a secure digital ecosystem. For many, the key to successfully managing their cloud solutions is a dynamic infrastructure that allows for faster and even more reliable communication between devices. They need a smarter path that provides scalability—and perhaps no better path exists than that of a purpose-built, cloud-based system.
The key to a successfully-managed cloud solution is a dynamic infrastructure.
Making the IoT Accessible for More Organizations
Understandably, the primary word on most C-level professionals' and board members' minds is usually money. Cash flow and ROI underline most conversations, even if the words aren’t uttered aloud. Fortunately, cloud solutions can help make keeping up with the IoT more affordable, and offer a number of other benefits, including:
These features would usually be extremely expensive to integrate and maintain, but in a cloud environment, they become somewhat standard.
How to Break the Mold
Even though building a digital ecosystem is becoming more affordable, there’s often a disconnect between what CIOs believe they should spend and the reality of the costs associated with secure, transformative technologies like cloud computing and IoT.
For those trying to sway decision makers into exploring these technologies, one approach that seems to work is to audit risk. It is well-accepted that most digital businesses are in danger of suffering major failures because of an inability to manage digital risk.1 For proof, look no further than a standard corporate insurance policy. But, risk can be mitigated and minimized, and when you’re integrating IoT, the way to do that is with a strong cloud effort.
Protecting Your Investment
No matter what you spend to get your digital ecosystem up and running, it’s important to choose solutions that are stacked with security features, such as:
When integrated into a risk strategy, these features help to reinforce security throughout your organization, and allow for a faster time to market and better efficiencies. This cultural shift won’t just be felt internally—it will also reflect in the service provided to clients, giving your organization a better reputation overall.
Avoiding Lock-In
According to Gartner, worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 21.4% in 2018,2 but they warn that companies should guard themselves against lock-in—a phenomenon where an organization moves their applications and data onto one cloud platform and then experiences issues when they try to move away again.
It’s important to consider this as you begin building your digital ecosystem. Starting with a hybrid cloud architecture is a popular way to mitigate the risk of lock-in. This service allows you to bridge to the public cloud while also taking advantage of an on-premises or dedicated hosted infrastructure, essentially protecting you from the dangers of an irreversible migration.
Finding the Right Partner
When it comes to technology, a single degree of change can disrupt an entire market. The same can be said for changes within an enterprise. By making even incremental changes to your digital ecosystem, you can create a positive disruption that leads to better business opportunities—especially when you start with the right cloud approach and the right cloud partner.
Find a hosting partner you can trust to help design, build, secure, and operate your infrastructures. At Hostway, we have the in-depth expertise needed to create or improve a customized and affordable digital ecosystem—all while helping to mitigate risk and keep your organization secure.
To learn how Hostway can help you tap into the IoT through a cloud-based digital ecosystem, or to receive a free security assessment, talk to one of our Security Experts today.
1. Gartner, 2016.
2. Gartner, 2018.
As hybrid cloud continues to gain prominence as an IT Infrastructure solution, providers of Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting (MHCH) are becoming critical in helping companies run their workloads in a secure and dynamic environment. Hostway has been focused on providing enterprises with a wide variety of managed hosting, and managed cloud services and capabilities, with a special focus on MHCH. As a result, we were recently listed as one of the top MCHC vendors in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting.
This listing is a result of Hostway's strong ability to provide:
Putting Our Abilities to the Test
These capabilities allow us to efficiently design, build, and operate PCI-, FERPA-, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructures that can securely store highly-sensitive data for our global enterprise customers, including industry leaders like Samsung. Last year, the electronics giant asked Hostway to help secure their SmartTV application. Our team executed a customized approach that enabled Samsung to offer the first smart television app to be PCI compliant on a global scale. As the cloud market evolves, Hostway will continue to offer solutions like these that are built to meet the individualized needs of each customer, and we look forward to meeting Gartner’s high standards in the process.
Bespin Global Follows Suit
In related news, our sister company in Korea, Bespin Global, which uses Hostway Data Centers, has just been listed on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the second year in a row. The report cites, “Bespin Global is a small hybrid MSP headquartered in South Korea. It was founded in 2015 as a spinoff of Hostway Korea. It offers hyperscale cloud managed and professional services, along with hybrid solutions, including colocation, dedicated servers and private cloud IaaS via Hostway's data centers.”
Harness Our Expertise
To learn more about what makes Hostway a Gartner-recognized industry leader, or to receive a comprehensive consultation on your own cloud migration, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or mission-critical application management, contact a Hostway Expert today.
Customers benefit from high-end hybrid cloud solutions and migration services via Hostway data centers.
Gartner has published their 2018 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service Providers (MSP), Worldwide. For the second year in a row, Bespin Global, Hostway's sister company in Korea, has been listed as one of the leading MSPs. This designation is based on:
As the only country in East Asia to be listed, the report puts Bespin in impressive company with its larger competitors, especially those utilizing hyperscale data center infrastructure—a global market that is expected to be worth $98.2 billion by 2022.1 Further, it emphasizes Bespin’s strength as a strategic and focused global MSP, capable of offering advanced managed and hybrid cloud solutions via Hostway data centers, including:
Bespin started as an internal business unit of Hostway and became an independent entity in December 2015. In addition to that foundation, the company credits its proficiency and success to these key components:
We sincerely congratulate our colleagues at Bespin on their hard-earned achievements and well-deserved recognition.
Hostway Also Recognized In 2018 Gartner Report
As hybrid cloud continues to influence IaaS, providers of managed hybrid cloud hosting (MHCH) are becoming critical in helping companies run their workloads in a secure and dynamic environment.
With this trend in mind, Hostway has been focused on providing enterprises with a wide variety of agile services and capabilities, including MHCH. As a result, we were recently listed as a representative MCHC vendor in the 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting. This listing factors in our ability to provide:
Maintaining Momentum
With 20 years of expertise, we are humbled to be included among other big industry players, and we look forward to innovating within the field to provide MHCH solutions that can change the way enterprises do business for the better.
Understand the Hype
To learn more about hyperscaling hybrid solutions, explore the 2018 Magic Quadrant report or contact us.
1. BCC Research, March 2018. Hyperscale Data Center Market to See 20.3% Annual Growth Through 2022
An Inspiring Message from our CEO & President Emil Sayegh on MLK Day
Today is the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in the U.S. There’s a solid reason we celebrate and honor Martin Luther King Day every year, as this day provides all of us with an opportunity to reflect on the life, work and legacy of Dr. King. Every time I read and listen to his “I have a dream speech” from August 28, 1963, I remember the progress we have made in the last 55 years, and certainly the challenges we still have today. I encourage you all to read it and reflect on it. As we celebrate today the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us commit to doing our part to realize the “dream” that Dr. King spoke about so eloquently.
Some of the things that Dr. King said in his other sermons or public appearances are so inspirational, and ring very true today, as they did 55 years ago. They ring true in our personal lives, as well as business environments.
Here are a few of the inspirational and sobering quotes of this legendary civil rights leader, and Nobel prize winner as he speaks of the brotherhood of mankind, justice, life, hard work, and purpose:
Please join me in honoring the legacy of Dr. King today with the deepest respect and gratitude for him and his accomplishments.
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot
With only a few days remaining in 2017, I would like to take a moment to reflect and show my sincere appreciation and gratitude for everyone who has helped make 2017 a great year for Hostway, especially our customers, our partners, local communities, and the dedicated and talented Hostway team members worldwide. Our continued success is a result of all your dedication and hard work in our mission to provide secure and reliable cloud solutions to business enterprises across the globe.
Much of that success is evident in the accomplishments and growth seen in our organization during 2017. We’ve expanded our operations with new offices in San Antonio and Chicago, and we added our tenth international, world-class data center in Austin. We have added to our portfolio of products numerous security solutions, as well as Managed Support for the AWS Public Cloud, and VMWare. All this is so we may be able to continue to serve our thousands of business and enterprise customers around the world by delivering the best and most secure hosting and multi-cloud managed services.
Which brings me to the T.S. Eliot quote at the beginning of this message. 2017 was not without its faults and missteps. They will happen and we should not allow the possibility of failure to cloud our possibility of success. Last year has happened, so let those words, those actions, remain in the past. Next year’s words, next year’s actions, that is the new voice, and Hostway embraces that new voice and that onward path to continuing to serve customers and earn their trust in our every action so that we can really earn the title of “Trusted Cloud.”
Let the new year bring new challenges, new friendships, and new success. We welcome them and we will continue to broaden our capacity to provide secure, state-of-the-art cloud solutions for our customers new and existing. If you’re an existing customer, thank you again! You are the reason we are here. Always feel free to let us know how we’re doing. If you are considering Hostway as a partner, please don’t hesitate to contact us and let us know how we can help.
May this blessed holiday season, and the new 2018 year bring peace and prosperity to you and your loved ones!
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
At Hostway, we talk a lot about trusted relationships. We pride ourselves in earning the trust of our customers to manage and secure their mission-critical data and applications. But trust doesn’t just come in the form of our services and expertise. We also want to earn the trust of our local communities and show our support by taking part in the work they do to provide for the less fortunate.
This year, our teams in Austin, and San Antonio, Texas, as well as Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada joined their respective communities to spread the love and holiday cheer.
The Vancouver team has an annual tradition of attending the Annual Christmas Wish Breakfast to support a toy drive in cooperation with the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. Volunteers collected new, unwrapped toys, as well as made cash donations, and delivered them to the breakfast. Naturally, this toy drive is meant for the kids, but we have to admit, some of those toys were pretty cool.
Meanwhile, the Austin and San Antonio Hostway team members helped disassemble computers that were donated to Goodwill. The parts will be used to rebuild refurbished computers for use in Goodwill community programs such as workforce advancement and the career technical academy.
We know the power of unity and in serving our community. We are always looking for new opportunities to give back to the communities we serve. We encourage all of our customers and partners to find creative ways to make a difference in their own community, not just for the holidays, but all year round. Now, enjoy some of the great photos from our volunteer work.
Happy holidays everyone!
Hostway Team,
Good morning.
I am writing this message this morning to the broader Hostway family around the world knowing fair well, that other countries don’t celebrate Thanksgiving at this time. My universal message of genuine thanks and gratitude for all and each of you really transcends boundaries, and time zones.
I always love this time of year around Thanksgiving in the US. As we move into the holiday season, Thanksgiving is a holiday dedicated to gratitude, remembrance, and family. I hope we don’t lose track of that in the midst of the commercialization of these holidays. The holidays bring us a wonderful opportunity to look back at the year and give thanks and gratitude for all of the blessings given to us.
I wanted to share today all that I am thankful for, especially our Hostway team that is working tirelessly around the world to serve our customers, and advance the Hostway cause. Let us all be reminded that many of you are working on Thanksgiving day to cover shifts for your US counterparts, and many of our data center techs are working in the US data centers on Thanksgiving away from their families. For that, a huge thank you!
I realize many of you have worked tirelessly this year to bring Hostway, and our customers this far. I know it requires great personal sacrifice. Understand this: None of this is possible without you. None of it is going unnoticed or unrecognized. Our most important resource is not technology, money, or assets. Hostway's most important 
resource is you. Thank you and your families for all your hard work, sacrifice and commitment.
Thanks to you, 2017 has been an exciting year so far. Indeed the business is stronger thanks to all of your hard work. We have accomplished a lot together in the past year. We have a clear company strategy, launched a new state of the art data center, we’re launching new services around AWS and VMWare, and we brought in thousands of customers to the Hostway family, etc. Again, we have experienced strong employee growth and every month I continue to see many new faces joining our team working alongside our dedicated Hostway veterans.
I am so very thankful we are all in this together. I am also very thankful for our awesome customers, old and new. We have to remember that nothing would be possible without them, and they are the reason we are here. They should always be our top focus.
The year has not been without struggles. No year is without them ever. However, we have to also look at both the struggles and the blessings together; that is how we are able to be better workers, co-workers, husbands, wives, parents, partners, and human beings that strive to make our distinct mark on this world.
I am very proud of each of you, I am thankful for our customers and their faith in us, and I am grateful for what you have accomplished in this last year and couldn’t be more excited for 2018. I want to take this opportunity to personally thank all the Hostway employees around the world for your dedication and continued commitment to outstanding customer service. I appreciate you for the time and energy you invest every day. If you are in the US, please enjoy your family and friends this Thanksgiving, and I equally thank you for all your hard work whether you are in Sofia, Vancouver, or the USA.
Have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving,
Emil Sayegh| CEO and President
Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We already know how crazy Black Friday can get. One keyword search on YouTube brings up countless videos of people recklessly clawing at each other for electronics, toys, appliances, and other items whose prices have been drastically slashed for the occasion.
Cyber Monday trades the mob mentality of Black Friday for a more concentrated panic online. The consequence is directed at the protection of personal identification and data. This time last year, the National Retail Federation found that 122 million Americans planned to shop online. That number is sure to increase this year, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean consumers aren’t wary of the risks of online shopping.
In a 2016 identity fraud study, it was discovered that there were 15 million victims of identity fraud in the U.S. — 16% more than the year before. Of course, it is the responsibility of the consumer to exercise good password habits, ideally alphanumeric, and routinely changed. They must also exercise good judgement when choosing where to make their online purchases. This isn’t just referring to sketchy retail sites. Legitimate and established online retailers aren’t immune to security breaches. Recently, Forever 21 notified customers that certain stores reported a possible payment data breach due to non-operational security encryption tools that were installed back in 2015. This isn’t the first time Hostway has discussed the topic of data breaches in major enterprises. Recently, we wrote about managed security issues with AWS that led to the exposure of data for several organizations such as Dow Jones and Verizon. And that wasn’t the only Amazon cloud server breach this year.
“Cyber Monday trades the mob mentality of Black Friday for a more concentrated panic online.”
With events like Cyber Monday, it’s important to make sure your business security protocols are up-to-date, scalable, and PCI-compliant. Without taking these precautions, the cost to your business could be substantial. The average cost of a data breach per record — for instance, a single compromised credit card — was $172 for the retail industry in 2016. At that cost, with an average of 122 million online shoppers, that presents a very expensive risk that should not be taken lightly. Not only for profits, but for customer trust and loyalty.
For many businesses that depend on the cloud, it is their obligation to safeguard the customer information stored within it. And the first step is to perform a risk assessment of your infrastructure. Instead of remaining vulnerable to threats, work with a trusted managed security provider that can provide expertly managed cloud solutions that are compliant and secure. This way you can focus more on your business while making sure customers receive the care they deserve.
Finally, in another survey, 57 percent of online shoppers believed the greatest identity theft risk they face is the data breach of an online retailer. Forty percent of those surveyed said businesses are not doing all they can to protect their information. This is a clear call to action from the consumer to the business.
Don’t wait until your organization has become a victim to cyber threats. Experience the Hostway difference and request a free security consultation or contact a Hostway cloud hosting expert at 1.866.680.7556.