(BSNS WIRE) West Coast Companies Live Picture and Vicinity Select NaviSi
West Coast Companies Live Picture and Vicinity Select NaviSite to Provide High
End Hosting Services
Business/Technology Editors
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1998--
Two More High Growth Web-Centric Companies Select
NaviSite's SiteHarbor
NaviSite Internet Services, a leading provider of
high-performance Internet outsourcing solutions, today announced that
LivePicture, Inc. and Vicinity Corp. have selected NaviSite to provide
high-end Web hosting and server management services. The addition of
these two new customers, whose Web server farms will be managed from
NaviSite's Scotts Valley, CA data center, is the most recent
development in NaviSite's rapid expansion in Silicon Valley.
Live Picture and Vicinity are the latest in a series of
prestigious West Coast companies to entrust their business-critical
Web presence to NaviSite's specialized Scotts Valley data center and
skilled network operations team. The NaviSite SiteHarbor Web hosting
solution not only incorporates the most comprehensive
high-availability guarantees and 24x7 monitoring and support, but is
also recognized for providing the most sophisticated server management
support for customers that require consistent uptime, availability and
access for their Web site and Web applications. This, combined with
SiteHarbor's optimal performance and scalability, make it the most
comprehensive and powerful hosting solution -- ideal for companies
that rely on superior Web functionality as the basis of their
technology and business.
"Live Picture and Vicinity are dynamic companies that rely
heavily on the Web and Web applications to drive their business,"
said Jay Seaton, vice president of marketing for NaviSite. "We are
extremely pleased that they are two more examples of influential
companies that have chosen NaviSite's SiteHarbor for its optimum Web
site performance, connectivity, and server management solutions."
"We are pleased that NaviSite will be hosting our consumer site
MapBlast! (www.MapBlast.com), which is an important component of
Vicinity's eRetail strategy. Since we specialize in providing
geographically-based information including maps, driving directions
and locator content which brings Internet shoppers to real store
locations, choosing a Web hosting provider is critical to everything
we do," said Scott Young, senior vice president of operations for
Vicinity Corp. "We chose NaviSite because they offer scalable
technology that allows them to grow with Vicinity, and are committed
to being an important strategic partner of ours."
About NaviSite's SiteHarbor
NaviSite's SiteHarbor Internet Server Management solutions
provide secure, reliable, high-performance Web hosting and co-location
services including application management, high performance Internet
access, and high-availability solutions through load balancing,
clustering, mirroring and storage services. SiteHarbor offers complete
Business Critical Internet Server Management, providing expert server
monitoring and maintenance by NaviSite's skilled systems
administrators on a 24x7 basis. For customers who want to manage their
own servers remotely, NaviSite's SiteHarbor furnishes high-end
co-location services.
Unlike the "out of the box" solutions of other hosting providers,
NaviSite's SiteHarbor product line provides the unique benefits of
private transit Internet connectivity, as well as high levels of
service, expertise and customization designed to fit each company's
specific needs.
About Live Picture, Inc.
Live Picture, Inc. is a leader in network imaging and is the
inventor of zoomable images for the Internet. Live Picture develops
and sells servers, tools, and viewers based on its Zoom image
technology for creating, managing, and using highly detailed images
for network and print applications. Leaders in the retail,
entertainment, travel, real estate and publishing industries are among
Live Picture's customers. Live Picture enterprise server applications
are sold through direct sales, VARs/ISPs, and distributors. Its
award-winning tools, including LivePix software for family and SOHO
photo projects are sold via distributors, OEM and nearly 6,000 retail
outlets worldwide. Live Picture, Inc. is headquartered in Campbell,
Calif., with offices in San Francisco, Israel, France, Germany, UK,
and Japan. Live Picture is on the Web at livepicture.com.
About Vicinity Corporation
Vicinity Corporation (www.vicinity.com) is the leading provider
of Internet-based corporate locator eRetail solutions for the
enterprise. Vicinity's eRetail solutions help corporations facilitate
sales at their real-world locations by increasing the selling power of
their Web site, gaining a critical competitive advantage. Vicinity
arms its corporate customers with robust geographical technology,
content and services which allows them to provide the most convenient,
up-to-date store location and product information to their consumer
audience available on the Internet today. Vicinity's product suite of
private-label and co-branded content and services includes Business
Finder, Maps, Driving Directions, and Business Directory. Some of
Vicinity's more than 200 customers include, Alta Vista, BellSouth, Fed
Ex, Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, Iomega, Levi Strauss & Co.,
Marriott, MasterCard, NEC, Pizza Hut, Preview Travel, Starbucks, Taco
Bell, Toyota and UPS. The company was established in 1995 and is
headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
About NaviSite
NaviSite Internet Services is a leading provider of
business-critical Internet outsourcing solutions, specializing in
high-end Web hosting services for companies conducting business on the
Internet. NaviSite is a wholly owned subsidiary of CMG Information
Services. For more information, visit NaviSite's Web site at
www.navisite.com or call 978.552.3300.
About CMG Information Services
The CMG Internet Group is made up primarily of majority-owned
subsidiary companies including Planet Direct, NaviNet, NaviSite,
Engage Technologies, ADSmart, InfoMation, The Password and Magnitude
Network.
The company's CMG @Ventures investment affiliates have
significant interests in Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS), blaxxun,
GeoCities(NASDAQ:GCTY), Vicinity, Parable LLC, KOZ, Silknet, Chemdex,
Speech Machines, Softway Systems, TicketsLive Corporation, Critical
Path, Mother Nature, and Visto Corporation. CMG @Ventures recently
announced a definitive agreement to sell its investment in Reel.com to
Hollywood Entertainment. In addition, CMG will invest approximately
$34 million in Hollywood Entertainment. CMG has also signed a binding
letter of agreement to sell its 25 percent stake in PlanetAll to
Amazon.com, Inc. CMG also includes CMG Direct, SalesLink, InSolutions
and On-Demand Solutions as wholly owned subsidiaries in the direct
marketing, fulfillment and turn-key arenas.
Corporate headquarters is located at 100 Brickstone Square,
Andover, MA 01810. Telephone: 978-684-3600. Fax: 978-684-3674.
Additional information is available on the company's Web site,
cmgi.com.
All trademarks, tradenames, registered trademarks, or registered
tradenames are property of their respective holders.
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CONTACT: For NaviSite:
NaviSite Internet Services
Brenda Suarez, 978/684-3578
bsuarez@navisite.com
or
Copithorne & Bellows
Christine Foster, 617/450-4300
christine.foster@cbpr.com
KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS
INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET
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