Dear Lynn and all: First, Lynn are you not going to post the books EMC reads?
Second, lifted this off the GBLX thread a few moments ago. Wonder what it means to EMC? If anything? JDN
GlobalCenter Launches On-Demand, Enterprise-Class Storage Service for Businesses That Require Instant Scalability and Reliability
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000--
Leading Internet Services Business Expands Utility Applications Offerings With Disk-on-Demand Storage Solution, Powered by StorageNetworks
GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing subsidiary and a leading Internet services business, today announced the availability of Disk-on-Demand(SM), a fully managed enterprise-class on-demand disk storage service, giving customers instant scalability and reliability. Disk-on-Demand provides GlobalCenter customers the most advanced data storage systems available, powered by StorageNetworks, and available only through GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution.
"GlobalCenter understands that state-of-the-art, reliable storage is crucial to an enterprise's success on the Internet. We partnered with StorageNetworks to develop Disk-on-Demand, so that we could offer secure, scalable world-class data storage, including disaster recovery," said Leo J. Hindery, Jr., Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter. "This allows our customers to focus on their core business while we provide the business critical, enterprise-class utility applications and services they demand."
GlobalCenter partnered with StorageNetworks, a leading storage services provider (SSP), because it offered the most cost-effective, high-availability storage solution available in the marketplace today. GlobalCenter's Disk-on-Demand incorporates the "best of breed approach" with industry-leading hardware and software integrated within the Company's state-of-the-art data centers, remote 24x7 data monitoring, and StorageNetworks professional staff to offer turnkey solutions to meet customers' data storage challenges. By working with StorageNetworks, GlobalCenter customers are provided with the security, reliability, scalability and speed needed to accommodate their fast growing e-businesses. Adding Disk-on-Demand to its utility applications menu means GlobalCenter is able to provide customers a single source solution, which:
- Includes access to the most advanced storage systems available at
affordable prices.
-- Scales quickly to meet their storage needs. Fast scalability
eliminates the procurement cycle, system design and system setup,
all critical features for the fast growing Internet model.
-- Provides fully-managed services. GlobalCenter's IT professionals
and StorageNetworks data storage professionals assist in custom
designing a total solution that reflects the needs of the
customer.
Total Sports, one of GlobalCenter's first customers to utilize Disk-on-Demand, chose the service to ensure that their data is always available. Total Sports has five networks, consisting of over 100 Web sites that provide live-event coverage, historical databases, expert analysis and breaking news of many collegiate and professional sports.
"As an event-centered online sports media company, Total Sports needs a service provider with a hearty network, state-of-the-art facilities, best-of-breed applications and the professional services we need to provide a valuable online experience for our customers," says Colin Boatwright, Chief Technology Officer for Total Sports. "We selected Disk-on-Demand from GlobalCenter's menu of utility application offerings because, as a content rich site, we need access to a scalable, highly redundant and reliable storage solution. Having our content available 24/7 is critical."
The strategy for GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution is composed of four components that are critical to ensuring 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 a single-source solution that enables online businesses to grow and succeed. By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies 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 the high availability, flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy. |
