Genuity Offers Migrating Solution for Struggling Co-Lo Customers

📅 August 21, 2001 - Genuity Inc. (genuity.com), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services and e-business network platforms, has announced a new low-cost launch platform and e-business migration solution for enterprises seeking the financial stability and engineering knowledge of a 30-year-old network infrastructure provider.

Genuity's experience in transitioning customers from other hostingproviders, coupled with the new launch platform, helps enterprisesefficiently transition their e-business infrastructure from any co-locationprovider to Genuity's managed services platform. The new launch platformprovides customers with a major component missing from standard migrationsand greatly reduces the chances of post-migration difficulties, includingsecurity breaches, downtime and lack of support monitoring.
The platform, which includes migration consulting services, acts as aninexpensive test environment for the newly migrated e-businessinfrastructure, allowing customers to test its performance prior to goinglive, without the financial commitment of a long-term contract.
"Migrating from co-location to managed services has traditionally been apainful and costly process. With this platform, we leverage our managedhosting expertise, financial stability and proven migration methodology toconfront customers' migration concerns head on," said Jim Freeze, Genuity'schief marketing and strategy officer. "We're so confident in our ability todemonstrate the lower cost of ownership that our managed services deliver,that we're offering customers a 60-day test drive. If customers are notcompletely satisfied with Genuity's ability to effectively migrate anddeliver a cost-effective managed services platform, they can walk away."
While the launch platform allows the customer to evaluate Genuity's abilityto deliver Internet infrastructure services before committing to a long-termcontract, Genuity's eServices Mission Planning and Premiere Care SupportServices groups work with the customer to develop a roadmap for deliveringthe ideal e-business solution.
With tightening IT budgets, many companies are faced with the decision ofwhether to build a new data center, expand their co-location presence, ormove to a managed environment. Genuity says its launch platform andconsulting services enable companies to design, test, and implement a newsite seamlessly and on time.
Risk mitigation has also been a barrier for companies seeking to migrate.For example, in the financial industry, there is a strong desire to greatlyexpand Web-based services but without the risk of any transitional downtimeor excessive re-deployment of a limited IT staff. In these situations,Genuity has been able to step in and transition these companies to a secure,fully-managed environment with no interruption to the business.
To further aid customers that want to graduate from co-location, Genuityalso delivers a new flexible managed hosting service that bridges the gapbetween pure co-location and managed hosting. This new service will enableenterprises to maintain control over their e-business platform andapplications, while getting more management than the traditional "pipes,power and ping" typically offered by co-location providers.
"Managing an eBusiness architecture really is rocket science," said Freeze."We leverage our engineering expertise and multi-billion dollar investmentin carrier class infrastructure to deliver a safe, reliable and securemigration path from co-location. We've bridged the gap between co-locationand managed hosting. It's not an either/or proposition any more."
The launch platform will be available for a limited time.