Alentus Expands Into Europe Acquiring London-based Areti Internet Limited.LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. -- Alentus Corporation (Pink Sheets: ALNS ALNS Admiral Lord Nelson School (Portsmouth, UK) ALNS Alien Lord New Species ), a leading provider of web hosting and managed services, is pleased to announce it has acquired London, UK-based Areti Internet Limited. The acquisition will add approximately $1.5M in annual revenue and position Alentus in the fast growing European market. Founded in 1996, Areti Internet focuses on managed Co-Location, Dedicated Server, Internet Access with national UK xDSL and Leased Line, Virtual/Shared Hosting, and specialist data-center virtualization solutions. Areti brings a long term stable client base to the Alentus platform. Areti operates extensive multi-cabinet private cages/suites within the following five data centers - Telecity Sovereign House and Telecity Harbour Exchange in London, Equinix in Slough, IFL IFL International Fight League (mixed martial arts) IFL Integrated Facility for Linux (IBM) IFL Intense Football League IFL Indoor Football League IFL I'm Feeling Lucky (Google) I and IFL II in Manchester, UK, and Telehouse America in New York. All locations are connected to Areti's Cisco powered redundant network featuring BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 4 carrier resiliency. "The UK is our 2nd largest market behind North America - a strategic network expansion into Europe was inevitable. Areti has a very strong technical workforce, this combined with our sales and marketing team, should enable UK sales to be quickly on par with our North American operations," said William King, Alentus Corporation CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Alentus Corporation CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , John Macleod, comments on the technical benefits to current Alentus and Areti clients. "It is important to be able to bring your clients solutions as close to the viewing public and their customers as possible. This allows us to build geographically redundant solutions between continents, and expand our global network to the next level. Very few hosting and managed services providers can offer a redundant presence in the US, Canada and Europe and all connected to their own global network." All Areti Internet employees were retained in the acquisition. Financial details of the cash and stock transaction were not disclosed. About Alentus Corporation: Alentus Corporation is based in Laguna Niguel, California Laguna Niguel is a city located in southern Orange County, California. The name "Laguna Niguel" is derived from the Spanish word "Laguna" which means lagoon and the word "Nigueli" which was the name of a Juaneno Indian village once located on Aliso Creek. , with Data Center and Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. facilities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Columbus and Austin in the United States. The company provides Microsoft Windows ASP.NET hosting, RedHat Linux website hosting, SharePoint hosting, SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. and mySQL database hosting, Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Dedicated Server solutions to thousands of small- to medium-sized companies and customized solutions to larger organizations including many Fortune 500 clients. Alentus is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, RedHat Hosting Partner, and mySQL Partner. http://www.areti.net http://www.alentus.com |
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