Joe, Nice link........
GlobalCenter is planning to build an additional 11 data centers to supplement its existing six facilities over the next year.....
Good for GBLX, FC do your stuff.
When we got these FC seats they were pretty far from the main stage and not many wanted to sit in them for very long.
Looks like we may have front row center for the next 4 yrs or so.
GBLX adding key people.......
AT&T's Hindery Moves To Global Crossing
(12/06/99, 5:39 p.m. ET)
TechWeb
Global Crossing said Monday Leo Hindery, formerly AT&T's cable and broadband chief, will lead the Bermuda-based telecom's GlobalCenter Web hosting unit, in a move to integrate its international long-distance network and data services division to take on U.S. giants AT&T and MCI WorldCom.
One thing about GBLX is they are not waiting for the future to happen they are making it happen.......
Company Press Release
GlobalCenter Launches Global Commerce Service Strategy to Enable Scalability of .com Businesses
Leading Commerce Service Provider Delivers Internet Infrastructure for On-Demand Utility Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999-- GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing Company and the leading Commerce Service Provider, today announced the launch of its global Commerce Service Strategy -- the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global ``e'conomy.
Three new ``on-demand' applications are now available through the Commerce Service Solution: Tape-on-demand, backup and disaster recovery powered by StorageTek; Performance monitoring tools powered by Keynote Perspective(TM); and Global content delivery services powered by Akamai's FreeFlow(SM). Disk-on-demand, powered by StorageNetworks, will be available Q1, 2000.
The strategy for the Commerce Service Solution is comprised of four areas that are critical to ensure business availability and scalability: connectivity, data centers, ``on-demand' utility applications and professional services. GlobalCenter seamlessly integrates its leading, open systems infrastructure, applications and intelligence into services to provide one single-source solution that enables online business to grow and succeed.
By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies whose business models rely on the Internet, get enterprise class utility applications at a significantly reduced total cost-of-ownership with less capital outlay and fewer internal IT staff requirements. GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution provides businesses the Internet infrastructure to ensure high availability, flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy.
``The Sun-Netscape Alliance sees a huge market opportunity for service providers delivering secure, reliable outsourced applications to business customers looking to significantly reduce costs and re-focus their internal IT departments on core competencies,' said Dr. Stuart Wells, senior vice president of infrastructure products for the Sun-Netscape Alliance.
``By partnering with leading providers, like Global Center, we can offer the critical Internet infrastructure software, such as messaging, calendaring and directory servers, they need to successfully address these new business models, while driving revenues and customer growth.'
``Racks and bandwidth provide only one piece to the success of an online business,' said Don Detampel, president of GlobalCenter. ``There are many components that e-businesses need to guarantee their performance and scale. GlobalCenter has embraced these areas with the assets, expertise and direction to implement an Internet infrastructure that supports a complete commerce solution, whether you're a dot-com or a click-and mortar company.'
GlobalCenter Connectivity
As a Global Crossing Company, GlobalCenter services are provisioned directly over the Global Crossing Network, the most expansive, scalable, fiber optic network available. The network gives GlobalCenter the control needed to deliver customer content with the highest performance and availability levels that customers demand. The network infrastructure is state-of-the-art, built from the ground-up, and puts Internet Protocol (IP) directly over the fiber. The network is architected with extensive peering relationships to route content to the perimeter of the Global Crossing Network, bypassing the congested public infrastructure. The Global Crossing Network today includes 92,700 route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries, more than 170 major cities and has private peers with over 32 leading network providers with a presence at all seven major public exchange points. This network allows GlobalCenter to execute its number one priority: to get customers' content to their end-users.
GlobalCenter Data Centers
GlobalCenter's geographically distributed data centers are designed to ensure high availability and performance for customers by condensing the path of content delivery. The data centers are physically located in major metropolitan business centers while seamlessly integrating the network infrastructure, making them ``On Net.' ``On Net' data centers are built to specifications that deliver the highest standards in security and reliability because ``uptime' is imperative to get customer content to end-users. GlobalCenter currently operates six data centers and has plans to open 11 more in 2000. The next phase of data center expansion includes additional facilities in Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, and internationally to London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris.
GlobalCenter ``On-Demand' Utility Applications
GlobalCenter offers value-added utility-based applications and services in an outsourced, on-demand model. Businesses that need enterprise-class solutions can now choose from a menu of scalable applications. Outsourcing applications allows customers access to enterprise-class utility applications managed and monitored in data centers backed by a global infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of purchasing, managing and monitoring the applications internally. GlobalCenter offers best-of-breed technology for its on-demand applications by selecting and working with the leading vendors that are the experts in their respective markets, allowing GlobalCenter to focus on its core competency: delivering the Internet infrastructure to grow an online business.
Today GlobalCenter offers three ``on-demand' utility applications:
-- Tape-on-demand -- enterprise-class tape storage solution, powered
by StorageTek, to ensure immediate access to customer content for
backup and recovery.
-- Performance monitoring -- an Internet performance and
availability measurement service, powered by Keynote
Perspective(TM), that enables customers to evaluate the
performance of their Web site.
-- Global content delivery services -- an Internet content delivery
service, powered by Akamai's FreeFlow(SM), that places content
and applications closer to Web users to improve site performance
and availability.
Disk-on-Demand, powered by StorageNetworks, will be available Q1, 2000. Disk-on-Demand is enterprise-class storage for primary data and secondary off site mirroring offering terabytes of storage on-demand. StorageNetworks' disk-on-demand services are based on industry leading EMC technology.
GlobalCenter Professional Services
GlobalCenter provides customers a dedicated team of Internet specialists and industry-leading partners to integrate the scale and intelligence demanded to grow an online business. This group contains diversified expertise that includes systems architecture, IP networking, application and security engineering provided on an ``on-demand' basis to customers.
About GlobalCenter
GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq:GBLX - news). As the leading Commerce Service Provider, GlobalCenter delivers the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global ``e'conomy. GlobalCenter provides customers the Internet infrastructure to manage an online enterprise that must be highly available, flexible and scalable by seamlessly integrating its proprietary infrastructure, applications and intelligence.
GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis, MP3.com and eToys. GlobalCenter's parent company, Global Crossing, is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network with 92,700 announced route miles, serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 170 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to over 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing is included in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. For more information contact GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net, or Global Crossing at www.globalcrossing.com.
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