Dec, 2001 : WorldCom, Digex Unveil Hosting Portfolio for SMBs
📅 - WorldCom and its affiliate Digex announced today the introduction of Managed Express Hosting, a new managed Web and application hosting portfolio developed to meet the growing demands of small- to medium-size enterprises and the departmental Web requirements of larger enterprises.
Managed Express allows enterprises to benefit from the cost savings of outsourced managed hosting, using only the features and functions they need while maintaining the flexibility to expand the functionality of their hosted Web sites as their business grows. Offered in 12 different configurations, with base prices ranging from $1,320 to $2,500 per month, Managed Express Hosting solutions are available in the United States, Canada and the U.K. The portfolio will be introduced to enterprise customers in France, Germany and Japan in the first quarter of 2002.
"The idea behind it is to take the engineering and innovation that we have pioneered and built for the corporate marketplace and 'mass-productize' that to target solutions toward the small to mid-market enterprise," said Ron McMurtrie, WorldCom's Vice President of Global E-services.
Each pre-configured solution comes with a defined set of features including hosting, security, connectivity and infrastructure, as well as Web, database and server administration. Managed Express also offers an online customer care portal and 24x7 multi-lingual technical service and support.
Customers have a range of defined optional services to tailor their solution, providing higher levels of administration, security, support, performance, usage monitoring, reporting, and data recovery.
"We've re-visited the way we handle service to this segment... and re-engineered the way we do a lot of our back-end support to provide more automation for this customer segment," McMurtrie said. "We're fairly keen to this segment in that of all the business segments you have today, this is by far the fastest-growing if you look at the global economy."
The WorldCom-Digex Managed Express Hosting solutions are based on the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Sun Solaris operating systems, Compaq and Sun servers, and Microsoft and Oracle database software.
By combining the companies' hosting management capabilities, global IP network, and global Internet data center footprint, Managed Express Hosting offers high levels of performance, security, reliability and scalability, the companies say. "Managed Express Hosting brings a new dimension to the Web and application hosting space for large enterprises as well," said Martha Gilbertson, vice president of product management for Digex, in a release. "Express is ideal for companies who want to provide multiple individual platforms to specific divisions or departments within a company, all built to a common design and all managed in the same way."
Managed Express allows enterprises to benefit from the cost savings of outsourced managed hosting, using only the features and functions they need while maintaining the flexibility to expand the functionality of their hosted Web sites as their business grows. Offered in 12 different configurations, with base prices ranging from $1,320 to $2,500 per month, Managed Express Hosting solutions are available in the United States, Canada and the U.K. The portfolio will be introduced to enterprise customers in France, Germany and Japan in the first quarter of 2002.
"The idea behind it is to take the engineering and innovation that we have pioneered and built for the corporate marketplace and 'mass-productize' that to target solutions toward the small to mid-market enterprise," said Ron McMurtrie, WorldCom's Vice President of Global E-services.
Each pre-configured solution comes with a defined set of features including hosting, security, connectivity and infrastructure, as well as Web, database and server administration. Managed Express also offers an online customer care portal and 24x7 multi-lingual technical service and support.
Customers have a range of defined optional services to tailor their solution, providing higher levels of administration, security, support, performance, usage monitoring, reporting, and data recovery.
"We've re-visited the way we handle service to this segment... and re-engineered the way we do a lot of our back-end support to provide more automation for this customer segment," McMurtrie said. "We're fairly keen to this segment in that of all the business segments you have today, this is by far the fastest-growing if you look at the global economy."
The WorldCom-Digex Managed Express Hosting solutions are based on the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Sun Solaris operating systems, Compaq and Sun servers, and Microsoft and Oracle database software.
By combining the companies' hosting management capabilities, global IP network, and global Internet data center footprint, Managed Express Hosting offers high levels of performance, security, reliability and scalability, the companies say. "Managed Express Hosting brings a new dimension to the Web and application hosting space for large enterprises as well," said Martha Gilbertson, vice president of product management for Digex, in a release. "Express is ideal for companies who want to provide multiple individual platforms to specific divisions or departments within a company, all built to a common design and all managed in the same way."
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