Time Warner Cable, Inc Buys Enterprise Hosting Company NaviSite, Inc

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Posted by cloudrck, 02-01-2011, 10:40 PM

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Time Warner Cable has just announced that it has acquired NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud services, for $5.50 per share in cash, or $230 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/tim...site-for-230m/
Posted by MichelleH, 02-01-2011, 10:41 PM
Your link is broken.. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/tim...site-for-230m/

The original press release: http://www.navisite.com/f1f0b7e6-e55...ses-detail.htm
Posted by Dougy, 02-01-2011, 10:41 PM
wow..........
Posted by JenLepp, 02-02-2011, 01:04 AM
I have to admit, this one threw me for a loop followed by a double take, especially the "Time Warner said it saw hosting and cloud services as a 'great opportunity.'"

Cable/Voip/Internet Access/Web Hosting bundle, anyone?
Posted by VN-Ken, 02-03-2011, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JenLepp

I have to admit, this one threw me for a loop followed by a double take, especially the "Time Warner said it saw hosting and cloud services as a 'great opportunity.'"

Cable/Voip/Internet Access/Web Hosting bundle, anyone?

Hmmm, no, doubtful. Time Warner as they are now could offer web hosting if they wanted. Navisite really has nothing to do with web hosting itself (they don't offer web hosting)... its a premier colocation corp.
Posted by JenLepp, 02-03-2011, 11:29 AM
Not sure how much you've been reading, but TWC's purchase of Navisite represents a diversification of their offerings and an entrance into the hosting market with a target of small and medium-sized businesses for managed services.

It's also following Verizon's purchase of Terremark recently - out of that purchase, we got

"Computing as a Service, SMB"
http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Mediu...ting/caas_smb/

Looks like web hosting to me.
Posted by VN-Ken, 02-03-2011, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by JenLepp

Not sure how much you've been reading, but TWC's purchase of Navisite represents a diversification of their offerings and an entrance into the hosting market with a target of small and medium-sized businesses for managed services.

It's also following Verizon's purchase of Terremark recently - out of that purchase, we got

"Computing as a Service, SMB"
http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Mediu...ting/caas_smb/

Looks like web hosting to me.

To say web hosting means to say website hosting. They are not getting into website hosting.

I thought that is what you were saying, but I guess your definition is different than mine.

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Posted by JenLepp, 02-03-2011, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by VN-Ken

To say web hosting means to say website hosting. They are not getting into website hosting.

I thought that is what you were saying, but I guess your definition is different than mine.

If they're following Verizon's lead and creating a substantially similar product to compete, they will - their example pricing structure includes internet facing IPs, internet accessibility, the whole nine yards.

If you look at their pricing matrix (Verizon), you'll see their example total is $313 for storage, an IP, bandwidth, you'll see prices for OS's - their list of prices and offerings aren't substantially different than any number of cloud providers here on this forum. Their example cloud server comes out to $313, a price point that competes with many people here offering cloud and dedicated servers.

The servers they sell are accessible on Port 80 and can have SSL added. Looks like web hosting to me.

I'm curious how you *don't* see this as web hosting or competition/a new entrance into the market.