I received a nice update from Art Ziele, the CEO of Hosting.Com last week and it is great to hear how well things are going for him and his company. Art, of course, is iconic in the entrepreneurial community in Colorado and has worked directly with dozens of private equity and venture capital firms, raising hundreds of millions in debt and equity during his career . He has served on the boards of Intrado, iTriage and SMS Management Services and prior to Hosting.Com, was the CEO of QTC Management, co-founder and CEO of INFLOW and a founder of LINK-VTC (acquired by Global Crossings in 1995). He attended the Air Force Academy and the JFK School of Government at Harvard (where my wife worked when I was there at school and we both loved) and been contributing in Colorado in so many ways ever since.

Hosting.Com is thriving. They provide Infrastructure as a Service/IaaS to over 3,000 clients worldwide including NBCUniversal, Cricket, Brookstone, Stanford, the Dallas Cowboys, Humana, the NFL, Smuckers and more and have data centers in six cities across the US. They are increasingly focused on highly reliable web hosting for high target sites like CNBC, which are prime targets for hackers trying to disrupt their business or take down their website based on what the broadcast personalities may say from one night to the next. It was quite impressive to hear how they were able to protect CNBC during a recent all out hacker assault.

Art has also committed to help the Blackstone Network in whatever way he can and we appreciate his willingness to contribute and the great credibility he provides. Thanks Art for doing all you do!