OpSource
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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hosting, Cloud computing |
| Founded | May 2002 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California |
Key people | John Rowell (CTO) Treb Ryan (CEO) Co-Founders Steve Nola - CEO, Dimension Data Cloud Solutions |
| Website | cloud |
OpSource, Inc. is a cloud and managed services hosting company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company also has offices in Ashburn, Virginia, Ireland and India, and data centers in California, Virginia and the United Kingdom. OpSource is now part of the ICT company Dimension Data which acquired OpSource in 2011 for their Cloud Business Unit.
In 2002, Michael Piacente, Dan Rasmussen, John Rowell and Treb Ryan founded OpSource in Sunnyvale, California. The company initially began to provide application support to Microsoft's HotMail product and other customers.
In 2005 the term software as a service (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 (Adobe, Business Objects, BMC) take their product to market, created a SaaS Incubation program [1] for small businesses. In 2006, OpSource launched the annual "SaaS Summit" conference held in the San Francisco area.[2] Since 2010, the event has been renamed "All About the Cloud" and is presented in conjunction with the Software and Information Industry Association[3][4]
In 2009, OpSource released a cloud computing service that bills on a utility computing basis.[5]
OpSource received $56.5M in funding from Artiman Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Key Venture Partners, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) and Velocity.[6] Mark Spagnolo (past CEO - UUNET, Flag Telecom, Universal Access, Metromedia Fiber Network) was chairman of the board.
OpSource acquired Dublin, Ireland based Lecayla Technologies in 2008.[7][8] 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.[9]