Aptum Technologies, formerly Cogeco Peer 1, is a provider of services for

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History

Peer 1 Network Enterprises was founded in 1996 in

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, and funded in 2003. In 2004, Peer 1 acquired ServerBeach for about US$7.5 million. ServerBeach was based in

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, founded in January 2003 by

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co-founder Richard Yoo. ServerBeach had hosted video site

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until December 2007. In 2005, Peer 1 acquired Interland, Inc. assets in the USA for about US$14 million, and an investment of US$ 36 million, led by Celerity Partners, of

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. By 2010 Peer 1 was doing business as Peer 1 Hosting, listed as a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange with symbol PIX, reporting yearly revenues of about CDN$98 million. In 2012, Peer 1 acquired UK hosting provider NetBenefit for 25 million pounds, from Group NBT Limited.

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purchased Peer 1 Hosting in December, 2012. It formed Cogeco Peer 1 specializing in managed hosting, dedicated servers, cloud services and colocation. On February 27, 2019, Cogeco agreed to sell Cogeco Peer 1 Inc. to the investment firm Digital Colony. The deal closed on May 1, 2019. In August, 2019, Cogeco Peer 1 changed its name to Aptum Technologies. Susan Bowen was chief executive at the time. The Canadian co-location business was sold to eStruxture in May, 2021. In June, 2021, the parent of Digital Colony,

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, based in

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, announced it would rebrand itself to be called DigitalBridge. In January,2023, Aptum acquired CloudOps, a Montreal, Canada-based cloud consulting, managed services and software company focused on open source, cloud native platforms, networking and DevOps.

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