Monday December 13, 8:22 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
NaviSite Enters Service Provider Agreement With Sun
Leading ASP and Web Hosting Company Also to Offer Managed Services For Sun's Netra Servers
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAVI - news), a leading ASP and Web hosting company today announced that the company has joined Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s ServiceProvider.com initiative at the Elite level, positioning NaviSite to work closely with Sun to deliver fully managed outsourced solutions. In addition, NaviSite also announced today that the company will provide enhanced management services for Sun's Netra carrier grade services.
Sun's ServiceProvider.com initiative includes products, services and programs designed to help service providers deliver highly reliable, highly scalable systems quickly. Working closely with Sun, NaviSite is able to provide its customers with the highest level of service and support for all the latest Sun technology in a world class data center environment. In addition, NaviSite's staff of trained Sun engineers are available 24x7 to monitor and manage Sun systems, and the company offers comprehensive rental programs for Sun hardware.
NaviSite's managed services for the Netra include the installation, configuration, monitoring and ongoing support. Sun's Netra servers are optimized for high-density rack mount environments and deliver the scalability, availability and flexibility required by major service providers like NaviSite. These servers have been tested to meet the most rigorous environmental standards for their class (NEBS Level 3 Certified and ETSI Compliant). NaviSite's membership in the ServiceProvider.com initiative, combined with the company's newly-announced services for Sun's Netra servers, will yield rapid deployment of outsourced services with full system ease-of-management capabilities designed to strengthen Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
``We're pleased that NaviSite, one of the industry's leading service providers, has selected Sun's Netra servers as a key platform for delivering its Web hosting and application services,' says Neil Knox, vice president and general manager, Network Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ``Netra servers offer all of the performance and reliability that Sun systems are known for, in the rugged carrier-grade packaging that is required for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet.'
NaviSite's mission is to help customers get online quickly, and focus on their core business competencies by allowing them to outsource the deployment and ongoing maintenance and support of their Web presence to NaviSite. Through NaviSite's agreement with Sun and its package of services for Sun's Netra servers, the company is able to offer rapid configuration and deployment of the Sun platform and enhanced access to Sun's cutting-edge technologies.
In addition to participating in Sun's ServiceProvider.com initiative and the company's service line for Sun's Netra, NaviSite is also a member of the SunTone(SM) Architectural Council. Led by Sun, the SunTone program is one of the industry's first collaborative efforts to define and audit service provider infrastructure, operational practices, hardware, software and ultimately, overall service delivery, to ensure guaranteed levels of performance, security, availability, and uptime.
About NaviSite
NaviSite, Inc., is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications. NaviSite is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. with minority investments from Dell Computer Corporation and Microsoft Corporation.
NaviSite's SiteHarbor© solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications.
For more information about NaviSite, please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East coast call 888.298.8222, on the West coast call 888.755.5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 100 Brickstone Square, 5th Floor, Andover, MA 01810.
SiteHarbor is a registered trademark of NaviSite, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
NaviSite, Inc. Brenda Suarez 978.684.3578 bsuarez@navisite.com or Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc. Darby Johnson 603.559.5809 djohnson@beaupre.com |
