Dec, 2001 : Weather Channel Selects WorldCom for Hosting

📅 December 5, 2001 - WorldCom (worldcom.com), a data and Internet communications provider, today announced that The Weather Channel has selected WorldCom to provide Internet co-location services for weather.com, a popular source of weather, news and information on the Web.

Averaging 350 million page views and 14 million unique users per month,weather.com features comprehensive weather information for 77,000 locationsworldwide. Maps and other features available on television can also beaccessed along with weather-related news, educational material, a weatherglossary, a storm encyclopedia, seasonal features and more.
"At minimum, we need a hosting provider with secure, state-of-the-art datacenters, top notch IP network performance, 24x7 on-site technical supportand value-added services. WorldCom meets all of those requirements and goesa step further," said Debora Wilson, president and CEO for weather.com."With its unique reputation as one of the top providers and innovators inthe hosting business, as well as its solid, stable future, we're convincedthat WorldCom is the best provider for the job."
Through WorldCom, weather.com's servers will now be directly connected to afar-reaching and reliable global IP network with on-demand scalablebandwidth. And, with six-point service level agreement guarantees, WorldComassures that its site will be up and running around-the-clock.
"By entrusting its Internet infrastructure management and monitoring to theexperts at WorldCom, weather.com is able to save time, money and resourceswhile focusing its IT staff's attention on its core strengths - server,content and application management," said Ron McMurtrie, vice president ofWorldCom Global e-Services. "As weather.com's decision demonstrates,outsourcing your company's Web hosting needs is a sound business decision -if you choose the right provider."

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