Time Warner Cable to Buy Data Center Specialist NaviSite for $230 Million

Feb 2, 2011
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Time Warner Cable said Feb. 1 that it plans to go into the data center operations business by buying NaviSite for $230 million.
The deal is designed to enable Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable television operator (behind Comcast) in the United States, to diversify into data center service provisioning that will include various cloud services, such as enterprise Web services and online storage.
Time Warner Cable said it will pay $5.50 a share for the Andover, Mass., company-a 33 percent premium to NaviSite’s Feb. 1 NASDAQ closing price of $4.13.
In an interesting bit of timing, NaviSite is planning to celebrate the grand opening of its newest data center Feb. 2 in San Jose, Calif.
The transaction comes on the heels of Verizon Communications’ announced deal to buy Terremark Worldwide for $1.4 billion on Jan. 28.
The global cloud computing industry, which sold software, hardware and services worth an estimated $68.3 billion in 2010, could skyrocket to as much as $150 billion by 2014, researcher Gartner has projected.
New York-based Time Warner Cable was selling at slightly under $69 in New York Stock Exchange after-hours trading on Feb. 1.
The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, Time Warner Cable said.

Chris Preimesberger

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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