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LeaseWeb is an Internet hosting service with offices in Europe, Asia and the United States. The company offers hosting-related services: dedicated servers, colocation, cloud hosting, content delivery network (CDN) and hybrid solutions. Its parent company OCOM was listed in the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Customers include Heineken, Starbucks, Kelkoo, Twenga and Kaspersky Lab.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb Clients )〕 The company sponsors the Wikimedia Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Client Case The Wikimedia Foundation )〕 == History == The company was founded in 1997 with one website, an online business directory. Client companies could add their contact details and a short description. The company started designing and building websites as an additional service, and opened an office in Utrecht in 1998. The company eventually focused solely on hosting services. The company was named LeaseWeb in 1999, and the first employees were hired that year. LeaseWeb acquired its first own servers in 2000. The four servers had a total bandwidth of 512 kbit/s. LeaseWeb also moved to Amsterdam. The company owned 5,000 servers in 2005, and 10,000 two years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OCOM History )〕 The company doubled its number of employees in two years to 50 by 2007. LeaseWeb moved to its current offices in the Amsterdam area and was also for the first time included in the Deloitte Technology Fast50.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deloitte Technology Fast50 2011 )〕 In 2009, the number of employees doubled again to 100. In 2010, the company had 25,000 servers. the company had over 300 employees and over 50,000 servers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About LeaseWeb )〕 LeaseWeb acquired the German hosting provider Netdirekt in 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb Acquires Germany's netdirekt )〕 and expanded its presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The acquisition allowed LeaseWeb to support its German customers in their own language from its datacenter in Frankfurt. LeaseWeb expanded its operations to the United States in 2011 with the establishment of a subsidiary LeaseWeb USA Inc. It operates a datacenter in Manassas, Virginia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb To Open Virginia Data Center )〕 mainly for its American customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb To Open US Datacenter )〕 On October 14, 2011, OCOM, LeaseWeb's parent company, was again listed in the Deloitte Fast 50.〔 OCOM was the company with the highest revenue on the Deloitte Technology Fast50 2011 with a total turnover of €50 million (2010). On October 7, 2011, LeaseWeb was chosen as HP Service Provider partner of the Year 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb is HP Service Provider partner of the Year 2011 )〕 The best-performing HP partners in the Netherlands across various disciplines are presented awards. LeaseWeb was one of the hosting providers of Megaupload. In January 2012, the servers were shut down after an international action coordinated by the FBI,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb was hoster MegaUpload )〕 and all Megaupload user data was deleted from 690 servers〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged )〕 in what is called the biggest data loss in history. On March 19, 2012, LeaseWeb announced its new public cloud platform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb launches new public cloud platform )〕 The company said that it could accommodate large numbers of customers, and provide a robust foundation for advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) applications. Anti-malware organization StopBadWare and LeaseWeb announced on April 19, 2012 that they would work jointly on cybercrime prevention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb Provides Free Hosting to Anti-Malware Non-Profit StopBadware )〕 LeaseWeb sponsors StopBadware as a part of its Community Outreach Project. LeaseWeb offered a CDN (Content Delivery Network).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb Launches In-House Developed CDN Service )〕 On December 17, 2013, LeaseWeb launched a Private Cloud platform, powered by Apache CloudStack.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb adds new Private Cloud platform powered by Apache CloudStack )〕 March 2014, Leaseweb was ranked in the top 31 world's worst hosts and networks based on malicious traffic it hosts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=sitevet.com )〕 In mid-2014 LeaseWeb opened a data center in Singapore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LeaseWeb Expands Asian Presence With Pacnet Data Center in Singapore )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LeaseWeb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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