Hosting.com, the leading provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, today announced that it has hired Bill Santos as Vice President of Professional Services continuing its focus on accelerating customer cloud enablement and performance optimization.

“Bill’s addition to the team represents Hosting.com’s continued investment in expanding our expertise and providing our customers customized, accelerated, and optimized roadmaps for cloud hosting and recovery services,” said Bruce Greiner, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing of Hosting.com. “His experience and knowledge will help us meet the increasing customer demand for cloud expertise to help support their existing infrastructure investments and long-term growth strategy.”

Hosting.com Professional Services leverages the experience from hundreds of client engagements to support customers during the entire technology lifecycle from early assessment and planning through migration and ongoing support. The team currently specializes in three areas: Cloud Enablement Services, Optimization Services, and Disaster Recovery Services and, with the addition of Santos, plans to rapidly expand offerings to further support the strategic needs of customers.

“I’m excited to join the team and leverage my past experience to help evolve the delivery of Hosting.com’s services,” said Santos. “As companies realize the multiple benefits offered by the cloud, such as reduced costs, flexible recovery options, high availability, and scalability, they can look to our well-seasoned team at Hosting.com to help them quickly and efficiently achieve optimal performance. We are committed to making the potential of cloud computing a reality for our customers.”

With over 13 years of leadership experience in strategy at IBM and five years at SHI where he established a technology services practice, Bill brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Hosting.com. Most recently, Bill led the development of a cloud services strategy for a management and technology services firm. In addition, Bill was founder and CEO of a technology services firm he successfully sold in 2001.

Bill earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

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About Hosting.com

Hosting.com provides next generation cloud hosting and recovery services to ensure their customer’s mission-critical applications are Always On. The company’s geographically-dispersed data centers and Cloud Supersites, coupled with the industry’s top networking and connectivity technologies, provide the highest levels of availability, recovery, security, and responsiveness. The most recognized names in SaaS, Healthcare, Retail, Financial Services, and Government repeatedly rely on Hosting.com’s portfolio of dedicated hosting, cloud hosting, and backup and recovery solutions to deliver the business continuity advantages they require.

Hosting.com currently operates PCI Level 1 cloud and dedicated infrastructures and SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in Dallas, TX; Denver, CO, Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; and San Francisco, CA.

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