OpSource
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| Company type | private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hosting, Cloud Computing |
| Founded | May, 2002 |
| Headquarters | 5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 |
Key people | John Rowell - CTO, Treb Ryan - CEO, Co-Founders |
| Revenue |  Privately Held |
| Website | http://www.opsource.net |
OpSource, Inc. is an Cloud and Managed Services Hosting company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland and India and data center locations in California, Virginia and the United Kingdom.
History
In 2002, Michael Piacente, Dan Rasmussen, John Rowell and Treb Ryan founded a managed services company at Vito's Famous Pizza in Sunnyvale, CA. The company initially began to provide application support to Microsoft's HotMail product as well as other Telcos, ISVs and Enterprises.
In 2005, recognizing that Software as a Service SaaS was becoming an important market, OpSource began to focus primarily on creating the systems and underlying infrastructure to support SaaS, helping ISVs focus on software development, marketing and sales. As part of this product OpSource created a very successful SaaS Enablement product which helped many ISVs (Adobe, Business Objects, BMC) take their product to market, created a SaaS Incubation program [1] for small businesses and created the annual SaaS Summit.[2]
OpSource has received funding from Artiman Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Key Venture Partners, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) and Velocity. Mark Spagnolo (past CEO - UUNET, Flag Telecom, Universal Access, Metromedia Fiber Network) serves as chairman of the board.
Business model
OpSource has two main products: Managed Hosting and Cloud.
Managed hosting is delivered under a dedicated server hosting model with support for multiple applications, operating systems and databases.
Cloud is delivered as a Infrastructure as a Service 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 has a unique SLA that provides their end customers with a higher level of service and guarantees than are provided by other providers.
OpSources offers an industry unique 100% uptime guarantee to customers who host their applications with them under the managed hosting product.
OpSource offers an industry unique 100% network uptime and <1ms intra network latency guarantee to their Cloud customers.
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.
Acquisition Activities
OpSource acquired Dublin, Ireland based Lecayla Technologies in 2008.[3] [4] Founded in 2004, LeCayla Technologie's metering and billing solutions allow ISVs to offer software applications on a utility, perpetual licensing or hybrid pricing basis LeCayla's metering and billing allows an ISV to flexibly quantify usage data generated by a software application.
Awards
2010 Always On - On Demand Top 100 Category Winner - [5]
2010 Top Cloud Computing Leader to Watch - [6]
2010 Top 20 Coolest Cloud Vendors - [7]
Software CEO Innovation Award 2008 Winner - [8]
See also
- OpSource Cloud - OpSource's cloud computing hosting
External links
References
- ^ "OpSource Launches SaaS Incubator Program".
- ^ "2010 Summit Schedule".
- ^ "OpSource Acquires Lecayla Technologies".
- ^ "SaaS hoster OpSource buys billing partner".
- ^ "2010 OnDemand Top 100 Awards".
- ^ "OpSource Recognized as a Top Ten Cloud Computing Leader to Watch".
- ^ "20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors".
- ^ "Software CEO".>