Some links for background on ISP, ASP, storage outsourcing, some review.........
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Frontier GlobalCenter (Sunnyvale, Calif.) just last month began offering storage backup outsourcing services to its largest customers, says Jason Schaffer, director of product management for hosting and content distribution.
Frontier bases its service on tape libraries, storage systems and management applications developed by Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek, Louisville, Colo.). Frontier currently offers storage services at its Sunnyvale data center, using StorageTek's Storage Utility package of hardware and software. It plans to install Storage Utility at its six other U.S. data centers by year's end, says Schaffer. This will let Frontier give its largest customers the option to use GlobalCenter's storage devices as an extra repository for their data, in addition to their tape or other internal backup systems.
Frontier may soon have lots of competition. "We're taking a very close look at outsourcing storage," says Michael Fox, general manager of Internet services for Interpath Communications Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), an Internet service provider (ISP) and applications service provider (ASP) that's talking with two customers to determine how a storage hosting service could be developed. Fox says Interpath's current infrastructure could handle this service without any substantial modifications.
"Any high-end e-commerce site we now manage has storage associated with it," he says. "Providing dedicated storage service won't change our life a whole lot."
PSINet Inc. (Herndon, Va.), an ISP that specializes in serving
We know UUNet has a SAN as it will be outlined in this Mo.s Infostor mag.....Does anyone doing ASP stuff need a SAN?
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Uunet Enters ASP Market
By David Greenfield, Data Communications
UUNET TECHNOLOGIES has become the first major Internet Service Provider (ISP) to join the so called Applications Service Provider (ASP) market after recently announcing it's developing a channel linking Internet application vendors with its ISP resellers.
The nascent market is expected to grow to $2 billion by 2003, according to International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass., from virtually nothing today. While Uunet, in Fairfax, Va., is the first big provider to get in on the ASP act, several software start-ups also are entering the market. These include Websentric Software, in Munich, whose Presentation.net lets customers give real-time presentations over the 'Net,and Netcentrex S.A., in Paris, which is selling a package that lets carriers charge for IP-based Centrex services, like call forwarding, caller ID, and conferencing. And start-up service providers are looking at application services as a way to help them compete with incumbent providers.
But service providers may also want to keep some potential drawbacks in mind. The ASP model opens the door for finger-pointing between carriers and software vendors if there's a problem and it can't be determined whether the application or the network is the cause. Also, carriers that want to furnish a high-level application service, like ERP, must develop a robust data center and use specialized APIs that let applications request quality of service on demand.
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Concentric's ASP Focus
Concentric Network Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.) wants to offer applications service providers (ASPs) the infrastructure and back-end business services to give them a complete outsourcing option and help them get their "rental app" businesses rolling. Concentric rolled out its applications infrastructure provider services, called "e-Mediary," late last month to compete with other multiservice providers using the same game plan such as Exodus Communications Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.). Its new operations and network-related services are designed to give ASPs everything they need to deliver applications and Web-based services over the Internet or a virtual private network (VPN), including software-based registration, authentication, usage reporting, application monitoring and billing services. Berge Ayvazian, executive vice president of The Yankee Group (Boston), says Concentric's services will provide the cost advantages and efficiencies of an outsourced infrastructure.
Come'on FC do your stuff..looks like FC can play as well here as in digital video-only the number of posts needed is much bigger.
PS- Need a favor. Ordered the MoraganKeegon ANCR report several days ago, but don't have it yet. If you have it and have time to e mail it to me- I'd owe you one.. Thanks in advance. |
