Big STOR/EXDS/SUNW agreement...
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Thursday February 1, 8:42 am Eastern Time
StorageNetworks, Sun and Exodus Announce Managed Storage Service Alliance
WALTHAM, Mass., PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001--StorageNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: STOR - news), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW - news) and Exodus Communications®, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXDS - news) today announced that they are entering into a Joint Marketing Agreement to co-market managed storage services which will be delivered and hosted at Exodus Internet Data Centers. The new Exodus® Services, powered by StorageNetworks and based on Sun StorEdge(TM)arrays and Sun Enterprise(TM)servers and Sun software, provide an end-to-end enterprise managed storage service to customers.
``Aligning closely with StorageNetworks and Exodus to provide managed storage service offerings supports Sun's vision of delivering optimal business solutions to our customers that are designed and delivered by experts in a specific technology area,'' said Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems. ``StorageNetworks offers one of the industry's leading technology-enabled data storage management services now delivered by one of the foremost providers in the hosting services space -- Exodus.''
``This alliance allows Exodus to offer Sun-based storage hardware managed by a trusted SSP - StorageNetworks - to our customers,'' said Ellen M. Hancock, chairman and CEO of Exodus. ``This important alliance delivers a highly reliable, secure and scalable storage system architecture for our customers' mission-critical data. Added Hancock, ''StorageNetworks continues to be an important storage service provider partner for Exodus and this agreement will serve to further strengthen this established relationship.``
``Working together with Sun and Exodus gives StorageNetworks a greater ability to deliver world-class data storage management services,'' said Peter Bell, co-founder and CEO of StorageNetworks. ``This alliance ensures that StorageNetworks will continue to offer a winning combination of cutting edge software technology and the highest levels of service, helping to make the Exodus/Sun, powered by StorageNetworks, solution the answer to many of our most demanding customers' storage needs.'' |
