Lloyd’s Development Capital ( LDC ), the private equity arm of Lloyd’s Trustee Savings Bank, the third largest bank in the U.K. (and state-backed) announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in leading web hosting provider UK2Group . The equity group paid a total of $77 million for its majority stake in partnership with the current management team

An image from UK2’s own webuywebhosts.com website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Private equity firm Lloyds TSB Development Capital ( www.ldc.co.uk ) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a majority stake in the major web hosting provider UK2 Group ( www.uk2group.com ), paying roughly $77 million for that stake, in partnership with the company’s management team.

The UK2 Group, which includes Web hosting brands such as VPS.NET and 100TB, is now under new management. Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) and it’s management team have bought a 47million ($77M USD) stake in the established Web hosting and cloud services provider.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ditlev Bredahl was looking for a solution that makes it easy for a Web host to setup, configure and manage a cloud hosting operation using off-the-shelf server and storage hardware. This led him to create the OnApp ( www.onapp.com ) cloud management platform, which gives Web hosts simple Web-based control of clouds, virtual machines, storage and compute resources, users, billing and more

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ditlev Bredahl was looking for a solution that makes it easy for a Web host to setup, configure and manage a cloud hosting operation using off-the-shelf server and storage hardware. This led him to create the OnApp ( www.onapp.com ) cloud management platform, which gives Web hosts simple Web-based control of clouds, virtual machines, storage and compute resources, users, billing and more

Strategic sales partnership provides instant account deployment and access to Akamai LONDON , April 14 /PRNewswire/ — The UK2 Group ( www.uk2group.com ), a global leader of web hosting solutions, and Akamai Technologies Limited, part of Akamai Technologies, Inc.  ( www.akamai.com ), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced a strategic sales partnership to provide UK small businesses across all sectors with premier content delivery services by Akamai via UK2’s service portfolio.  The strategic sales partnership will allow both companies to drive new growth opportunities and has the potential to transform the online experience of many small businesses by reducing the costs and complexity of providing online services to their customers

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