private industry it services internet hosting service disaster recovery firewall security founded 1999 headquarters toronto canada website www.fusepoint.com fusepoint managed services was a provider of managed it solutions for companies throughout north america that was acquired by savvis inc in 2010 . founded in 1999 fusepoint formerly known as roundheaven communications has within 5 years grown by over 1 400 % and in 2008 was ranked 46th by profit magazine in a list of canada s 100 fastest growing companies . 1 fusepoint is currently ranked as the 83rd largest technology company according to globe s branham group . fusepoint is a privately held company with offices and data centres in vancouver toronto montreal and quebec city . 2 fusepoint operates as a managed service provider msp helping to safeguard and guarantee access to a company s data and mission critical applications 3 through a variety of services including infrastructure hosting disaster recovery and firewall security . 4 fusepoint has one primary investor . m c venture partners a boston massachusetts based venture capital firm invested us 20 million in fusepoint in july 2001 5 and an additional us 10 million in 2004 . savvis inc. announced on june 1 2010 that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire fusepoint for approximately 124.5 million in cash subject to working capital adjustments . the acquisition is expected to close early in the summer . fusepoint acquisitions 6 include toronto based worldwide online a hosting and professional services firm in march 2005 and montreal based outsourcing firm versus in october 2004 . the company regularly conducts polls in canada on topics pertaining to identity theft business continuity and disaster recovery . 7 fusepoint s video tour of its facility on youtube has received a 5 star rating and 100 000 views . special certifications edit payment card industry data security standard p.c.i. dss on november 28 2007 fusepoint announced they had become one of the very few managed hosting providers in canada to become payment card industry data security standard pci dss compliant 1 . fusepoint is recognized by visa as a tier 1 payment card industry certified service provider page 18 . vmware hosting services in december 2007 fusepoint began offering managed hosting solutions on both physical and virtual servers by joining the vmware service provider program vspp and offering vmware to both large enterprises and small to medium sized businesses 2 . microsoft partnership fusepoint is recognized by microsoft as a gold certified partner offering microsoft sharepoint application development and hosting services capabilities . references edit profit magazine 20th annual canada s fastest growing companies canada june 2008 . idc report canadian strategic outsourcing may 2004 . wahl andrew . inside fort fusepoint canadian business july 7 2003 . buckler grant . rely on others to keep your systems safe globe an mail september 15 2005 . eagle liam . fusepoint challenges for canadian managed hosting market the whir.com september 25 2002 . lysecki sarah . fusepoint acquires toronto application developer itbusiness.ca march 8 2005 perkins tara . security firms boom how to prevent fraud identity theft toronto star january 20 2007 . external links edit fusepoint official homepage profit magazine 20th annual canada s fastest growing companies web host industry news report retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fusepoint managed services & oldid 647236931 categories information technology companies of canadabusiness services companies established in 1999companies based in torontoprivately held companies of canada navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 12 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view