Digital Island Announces CareerNext.com as Customer of Network Services for Fast, Guaranteed End-User Experience
Business Wire - February 08, 2000 07:15
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000--
Leading Hong Kong-Based Career Portal Ensures Reliable Web
Experience for Job Seekers and Recruiters across Asia Pacific with
Digital Island's e-Business Network
Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today CareerNext.com as a customer to ensure fast, guaranteed content delivery for site visitors as they search for the best job opportunities, candidates and career advice across Asia Pacific.
Using Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network, CareerNext.com enables job seekers to securely search databases for personalized career opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Digital Island is also providing regional and global recruiters a consistent and fast experience as they scan resumes and post job openings in real time. CareerNext.com is headquartered in Hong Kong.
"Time is of the essence for professionals seeking new opportunities on the Internet," said Mark Brown, chief operating officer at CareerNext.com.
"Digital Island's global network has given us terrific competitive advantages by guaranteeing fast, secure downloads of current career information, while freeing up CareerNext.com's resources to focus on vital content development and front-end design tasks."
"Digital Island's established in-country expertise and local e-Business networking resources have translated into rapid time-to-market in many regions for CareerNext.com during its steep growth curve," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island.
"Digital Island is reinforcing CareerNext.com's brand, as well as distinguishing it as a major career portal through the high-performance delivery of personalized career data."
CareerNext.com is a leading career portal bringing the most qualified individuals together with the most progressive and expansive companies. CareerNext.com is committed to leading the market by offering innovative technology and superior services that give job seekers superior resources to manage their careers and recruiters more control over the recruiting process.
The CareerNext.com network consists of sites in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Australia.
For job seekers: CareerNext.com is a life-long career resource with which users can expand or change their career, gain continuous access to a wide variety of progressive companies, and use interactive, personalized tools to make job searching more effective and convenient.
More information about the company can be found on the World Wide Web at www.CareerNext.com.
Digital Island(R) is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience.
Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets.
This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net |
