Will maintain both companies as brands under a new parent company known as the Nobis Technology Group.

Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, provider of web hosting, and DarkStar Communications, provider of shell hosting, on Friday announced that a merger which will maintain both companies as brands under a new parent company known as the Nobis Technology Group - a Illinois Limited Liability Corporation.

Ubiquity has made its focus on building up its presence offering diverse b2b IT services from 350 E. DarkStar Communications currently operates servers in 20 cities. Nobis has made it clear that they will be doing little to tamper with their current services, due to the scarcely overlapping scope of either company's current services. The company will instead be building upon its current offerings, utilizing the resources that either organization is able to bring to the table, says the company.

DarkStar Communications General Manager Jake Mertel commented on the merger, "This means a lot of things for a lot of people. Both companies obviously benefit massively in the boost of both economies of scope as well as economies of scale, but that's only the start. The pieces fit perfectly to allow either half of the puzzle to a caliber of international services never before seen in the hosting industry."

Ubiquity's Chief Technical Officer Clint Chapman elaborated regarding plans for the future, "Ubiquity prides its collocation and dedicated hosting on our flexibility and abilities to meet virtually any set of needs. There is no question that DarkStar's particular set of needs for the lowest-latency, highest availability networks stretch our requirements to build consistently high performance networks the extreme."