Jun, 2002 : WebCentral Enters Complex Hosting Market
📅 - Australian Internet solution provider WebCentral (webcentral.com) announced on Wednesday that it has entered the complex Web hosting market with the introduction of its new high availability e-business solutions unit, WebCentral Complex (webcentralcomplex.com).
The company says the new unit has found an untapped market since initial plans for WebCentral Complex were unveiled in January. The service officially launched Wednesday, with several enterprise customers already signed up. WebCentral says it expects the new unit to generate revenues of $32 million by 2005.
According to WebCentral, downsizing and corporate change has reduced in-house IT expertise, even as customer expectations and Internet dependence increase, placing businesses reputations at stake. WebCentral says companies are more carefully calculating the costs of buying and owning infrastructure.
"By leveraging WebCentral's expertise in managing large server farms, corporate management expertise and outstanding partners and suppliers," says WebCentral CEO Lloyd Ernst, "we are well placed to support the market between the major IT firms focused on global outsourcing deals, and smaller organizations without the management skills or financial strength to move up the food chain," said Lloyd Ernst.
WebCentral says its business now manages more than 1,000 servers located in 9 data centers across 6 countries.
The new business unit, says WebCentral, will be led by CEO Lloyd Ernst, COO Andrew Spicer, new head of development Leeanne Davies, new head of network operations Brent Paddon and new head of complex sales Adam Skovron.
The complex unit will be managed Sally-Anne Stansfield, says WebCentral, who led the company's expansion into the corporate market through its move from shared to dedicated hosting.
WebCentral Complex incorporates relationships with new partners and suppliers such as IBM and Micrsoft, as well as redundant backbone connections from major Australian backbone providers such as WorldCom, Connect, Telestra and COM indico, and will soon include Singtel Optus.
The company says it consolidated its position in the market during the past year and is cash-flow positive. Web Central says it launched the complex unit without compromising the company's overall profitability.
The company says the new unit has found an untapped market since initial plans for WebCentral Complex were unveiled in January. The service officially launched Wednesday, with several enterprise customers already signed up. WebCentral says it expects the new unit to generate revenues of $32 million by 2005.
According to WebCentral, downsizing and corporate change has reduced in-house IT expertise, even as customer expectations and Internet dependence increase, placing businesses reputations at stake. WebCentral says companies are more carefully calculating the costs of buying and owning infrastructure.
"By leveraging WebCentral's expertise in managing large server farms, corporate management expertise and outstanding partners and suppliers," says WebCentral CEO Lloyd Ernst, "we are well placed to support the market between the major IT firms focused on global outsourcing deals, and smaller organizations without the management skills or financial strength to move up the food chain," said Lloyd Ernst.
WebCentral says its business now manages more than 1,000 servers located in 9 data centers across 6 countries.
The new business unit, says WebCentral, will be led by CEO Lloyd Ernst, COO Andrew Spicer, new head of development Leeanne Davies, new head of network operations Brent Paddon and new head of complex sales Adam Skovron.
The complex unit will be managed Sally-Anne Stansfield, says WebCentral, who led the company's expansion into the corporate market through its move from shared to dedicated hosting.
WebCentral Complex incorporates relationships with new partners and suppliers such as IBM and Micrsoft, as well as redundant backbone connections from major Australian backbone providers such as WorldCom, Connect, Telestra and COM indico, and will soon include Singtel Optus.
The company says it consolidated its position in the market during the past year and is cash-flow positive. Web Central says it launched the complex unit without compromising the company's overall profitability.
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