AppliedTheory Joins With Telecoms to Restore Manhattan Net [...]
AppliedTheory Joins With Telecoms to Restore Manhattan Net Infrastructure
📅 - AppliedTheory (appliedtheory.com), the Internet knowledge, development and managed hosting partner for hundreds of large corporations and government agencies, said today it fully expects to see a continuation of industry trends toward complex, outsourced managed hosting services, and it reiterated that the company's strategic focus will remain on this sector in the economic aftermath of last week's terrorist attacks.
Like other network carriers, AppliedTheory experienced localized networkoutages caused by infrastructure damage to telecommunications facilitieshoused in the World Trade Center and Verizon's West Street central office.This situation was addressed by the cooperative, around-the-clock efforts ofAppliedTheory and Verizon engineers.
AppliedTheory management made specific note that Verizon's extraordinaryleadership was key to effectively addressing the difficult and complexsituation. At the same time, AppliedTheory immediately began pursuingalternative strategies for restoring service to affected customers asefforts were being made to restore service to the damaged facilities.
AppliedTheory CEO Danny E. Stroud communicated to shareholders, customersand employees this week that the company's managed hosting services centerssuffered no outages due to the terrorist attacks. The company's network,disaster recovery and customer service teams responded quickly andeffectively to address a myriad of problems relating to the attacks. Many ofAppliedTheory's customer sites had extraordinary usage during the last weekand at no point were any customer databases or information files at risk,with all data centers remaining fully operational.
"As a New York City company with hundreds of New York customers, we willnever forget this tragedy and its devastation on our community. But we areconfident in our country's resolve and resilience. I want to thank the trueprofessionals at AppliedTheory who, in an unthinkably stressful period ofdays, made sure that governments, news organizations and businesses remainedonline and responsive," said Stroud. "We anticipate that additional layersof complexity in security, disaster recovery and dynamic content managementrequirements will become even more important. If the last week is anyindication, the Internet will continue to be an increasingly valuable andnecessary business tool."
Like other network carriers, AppliedTheory experienced localized networkoutages caused by infrastructure damage to telecommunications facilitieshoused in the World Trade Center and Verizon's West Street central office.This situation was addressed by the cooperative, around-the-clock efforts ofAppliedTheory and Verizon engineers.
AppliedTheory management made specific note that Verizon's extraordinaryleadership was key to effectively addressing the difficult and complexsituation. At the same time, AppliedTheory immediately began pursuingalternative strategies for restoring service to affected customers asefforts were being made to restore service to the damaged facilities.
AppliedTheory CEO Danny E. Stroud communicated to shareholders, customersand employees this week that the company's managed hosting services centerssuffered no outages due to the terrorist attacks. The company's network,disaster recovery and customer service teams responded quickly andeffectively to address a myriad of problems relating to the attacks. Many ofAppliedTheory's customer sites had extraordinary usage during the last weekand at no point were any customer databases or information files at risk,with all data centers remaining fully operational.
"As a New York City company with hundreds of New York customers, we willnever forget this tragedy and its devastation on our community. But we areconfident in our country's resolve and resilience. I want to thank the trueprofessionals at AppliedTheory who, in an unthinkably stressful period ofdays, made sure that governments, news organizations and businesses remainedonline and responsive," said Stroud. "We anticipate that additional layersof complexity in security, disaster recovery and dynamic content managementrequirements will become even more important. If the last week is anyindication, the Internet will continue to be an increasingly valuable andnecessary business tool."
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