OpSource, Inc. is a

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and

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hosting company headquartered in Santa Clara,

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. The company also has offices in

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and

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, and data centers in

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and the

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. OpSource is now part of the ICT company

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which acquired OpSource in 2011 for their Cloud Business Unit.

History

In 2002, Michael Piacente, Dan Rasmussen, John Rowell and Treb Ryan founded OpSource in

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, California. The company initially began to provide application support to

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's HotMail product and other customers. In 2005 the term

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(SaaS) was becoming popular. OpSource began to focus on SaaS, helping ISVs focus on software development, marketing and sales. As part of this product OpSource created a SaaS Enablement product which helped ISVs (

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, BMC) take their product to market, created a SaaS Incubation program for small businesses. In 2006, OpSource launched the annual "SaaS Summit" conference held in the

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area. Since 2010, the event has been renamed "All About the Cloud" and is presented in conjunction with the

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In 2009, OpSource released a

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service that bills on a

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basis. OpSource received $56.5M in funding from Artiman Ventures, Crosslink Capital,

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, Key Venture Partners, NTT (

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) and Velocity. Mark Spagnolo (past CEO -

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, Flag Telecom, Universal Access, Metromedia Fiber Network) was chairman of the board. OpSource acquired

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based Lecayla Technologies in 2008. Founded in 2004, LeCayla Technologies' metering and billing services allowed ISVs to offer software applications on a utility, perpetual licensing or hybrid pricing basis. On June 30, 2011, OpSource Inc. was acquired by Dimension Data Holdings, which named Steve Nola the CEO of Dimension Data Cloud Solutions, a new division that included OpSource.

Business model

OpSource has two main products: managed hosting and

. Managed hosting is a

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with support for multiple applications, operating systems and databases. Originally called "Optimal On-Demand", these services are designed to support the software as a service market. OpSource offers a 100% uptime guarantee to customers who host their applications with them under the managed hosting product. Cloud computing is delivered as an

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offering. Cloud computing customers do not own the physical infrastructure, instead avoiding capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use under a utility computing model, paying only for the services that are consumed. OpSource Cloud offers a 100% network uptime and <1ms intra network latency guarantee. The OpSource Cloud product competes with similar offerings from

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, and IBM. Both service levels receive support via the usual means - e-mail, telephone, and ticket systems - but they are designed to fit the needs of different businesses.

Awards

2010 Always On - On Demand Top 100 Category Winner -
2010 Top 20 Coolest Cloud Vendors -

References

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