iAsiaWorks acquires Web Professionals

BANGALORE: iAsiaWorks, a PanAsian Internet solutions company,

has acquired Web Professionals, a Silicon Valley Web hosting firm founded by an

Indian entrepreneur, for an undisclosed combination of cash and equity.

According to a release here, Web Professionals of Cupertino,

California, provides leading-edge dedicated server hosting and co-location

services for multinational corporations, dotcoms, and small, medium and large

businesses around the world. Sixty per cent of its revenues are from outside the

United States, including India, New Zealand, Philippines and the Middle East.

Its customers include Samsung Semiconductor Inc., the National Stock Exchange of

India, Al Jazeera and India Internet Pvt. Ltd.

Sanjay Dani, founder and CEO, Web Professionals, will join

iAsiaWorks as vice president for hosting strategy and services. Dani is a native

of Yavatmal in Maharashtra in India, and has over thirteen years of computer

industry experience. Prior to founding Web Professionals, Inc., in 1995, he

spent six years as a distributed-systems architect and developer at Sun

Microsystems. At Web Professionals, he pioneered the concept of a pure-play Web

hosting provider, marketed that concept successfully and built a network of

solution providers in 30 countries. He holds a master’s degree in Computer

Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Sanjay now resides

in Cupertino, California.

iAsiaWorks, a PanAsian Internet Solutions provider, offers

one-stop Internet solutions to companies doing business in Asia — including

local businesses, MNCs and dotcoms — and companies expanding into new markets

in the region or from Asia into the United States. iAsiaWorks is headquartered

in the Silicon Valley, with operations in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and the

United States. It currently provides Internet solutions in China, Hong Kong,

Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan and the United States.