{"id":2830,"date":"2012-07-26T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=48dafb59e9264da09359cf1ae7ba88ec"},"modified":"2012-07-26T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:33:00","slug":"six-degrees-group-announces-new-funding-cloud-hosting-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/six-degrees-group-announces-new-funding-cloud-hosting-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees Group Announces New Funding, Cloud Hosting Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/financial-organization\/penta-capital\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured alignleft\" title=\"Image representing Penta Capital as depicted i...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0010\/3080\/103080v1-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing Penta Capital as depicted i...\" width=\"179\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Six Degrees Group today announces it has raised \u00a38 million in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition of Cloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud hosting expert established in 1999. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>CCC focuses on the cloud market and brings over 100 mid-market hosting customers who spend an average of \u00a336,000 pa. The acquisition takes Six Degrees Group\u2019s run-rate position to \u00a350m revenue and \u00a312m EBITDA. CCC\u2019s cloud platform is highly complementary to the existing Six Degrees technology and they are also a Microsoft Gold Partner and Silver Hosting Partner, bringing incremental skillsets for Microsoft Hyper-V to the Group.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the acquisition, Alastair Mills, CEO of Six Degrees Group, stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to welcome Cloud Computing Centre to Six Degrees Group. This is a significant acquisition for us as it reinforces our mid-market focus, strengthens our managed cloud hosting team and brings outstanding technical capabilities to the Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-11509\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In response, Keith Bates, CEO of Cloud Computing Centre, stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting day in the evolution of Cloud Computing Centre. We felt that the time was right to join forces with one of the fastest-growing managed data service providers in the sector, especially when we have so much in common. Joining Six Degrees Group will significantly strengthen our ability to win mid-market and corporate cloud hosting contracts and to deliver new services to our existing clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5381308b-bfe9-4754-88d1-c537c5214728\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4xxNckSa-LRf5rjKM7Pa6C23iCQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4xxNckSa-LRf5rjKM7Pa6C23iCQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4xxNckSa-LRf5rjKM7Pa6C23iCQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4xxNckSa-LRf5rjKM7Pa6C23iCQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/9IGh0UHL7Xg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Six Degrees Group today announces it has raised &#xa3;8 million in new        funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition of        Cloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud hosting  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,724,725,303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-activity","category-penta-capital","category-surrey","category-venture-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}