Strato AG
The Strato AG (proper spelling STRATO) is an Internet service provider based in Berlin. It is a subsidiary of the listed company Deutsche Telekom. Strato itself is not listed.
Strato has about 1.2 million customers and approximately four million domains hosted behind United Internet 's second-largest player in the European hosting market. The company employs a total of around 490 employees, is included the employees of the subsidiary Cronon AG.
History
The Strato AG 1- CEO Norbert Stangl in 1997 it was converted from a former of the Escom Executive Marc Alexander Ullrich and the former 1 & founded out consultancy. As part of the campaign www.wunschname.de 1998 standardized web hosting packages have been sold with its own domain in May. In the same year sold the two founders Strato at the Berlin company TELES.
First Strato pursued an outsourcing concept. Strato itself was limited to marketing, for the technique ( KPNQwest Germany GmbH later) was only the venturer Xlink responsible. Due to the favorable offer price for webspace and a growing number of customers to 1999/2000 resulted in the situation that large parts of the German Internet are hosted on a single server, thus a congested Sun Enterprise 6500 with mass storage devices from EMC. After repeated, sensational server failures, this design proved to be untenable. 2002 Strato could become independent of technology partners through the acquisition of the Karlsruhe Rechenzentrum of the insolvent KPNQwest. First of all the technology was driven by the specially created sister company Strato Rechenzentrum AG, which also yielded benefits for third-party companies to a limited extent, since the Strato Rechenzentrum AG was merged with the Strato AG.
TELES sold on 12 December 2004 Stratocaster to the freenet AG for a purchase price of 132 million euro. On 19 November 2009, freenet announced the acquisition of Strato by the German Telekom. The purchase price amounted, according to the press release of freenet to 275 million euros. On 18 December 2009 the Federal Cartel Office cleared the acquisition by the German Telekom.
Data centers
Strato operates a data center in Berlin and one in Karlsruhe, where the data between the two sites are mirrored. There are more than 50,000 servers powered by 4 million domains and managed. Both data centers are certified annually since 2004 for their safety according to ISO 27001. Since 2008, data centers operate entirely CO2-neutral electricity from hydropower.
Product portfolio
Webhosting
Strato marketed web hosting packages and domains in Germany and since April 2006 also in other European countries (Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the UK). The focus is on the so-called shared hosting, where multiple customers share a physical server. After 1 & 1 Stratocaster is the second largest provider of such products in Europe. The last update of the web hosting platform took place in January 2012.
Server
Since late 2003, Strato offers dedicated servers on, since 2005 also virtual server. In February 2007, a special version of the dedicated server have been presented that can be used exclusively as a game server. In addition, a dedicated server is now available exclusively on the Oracle database is operated.
Memory
Since March 2010 Strato offers an online hard disk called HiDrive. This has a capacity of 20 gigabytes and terabytes of five. Access to the data is either via a web-based interface or via WebDAV protocols, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SMB, rsync or SCP. Strato also offers apps for mobile access from iOS, Android and Windows Phone. A 5 gigabytes large test package can be used for free.
Internet access
In spring 2004, Strato started with distribution of DSL connections. Offered were both based on T- DSL resale and line sharing connections with bundled telecom landline and since December 2006, unbundled DSL complete connections without traditional landline connection on the basis of fully unbundled local loop and, since July 2008, based on telecom Bitstream. But the DSL package was indeed offered by Strato, realized it had the freenet Broadband GmbH since 2007. The telephone has been realized by Strato as a VoIP connection.
Meanwhile Strato does not provide unique broadband connections more, new customers can not order the complete package.
Products for Companies
Since June 2008, the Strato AG offers web-based solutions for corporate communication and customer relationship management. For this purpose, a business customer portal was opened with special offers for small and medium-sized enterprises, is distributed via the software as a service. Meanwhile, the business customer division is completely under the brand STRATO PRO.