Nov, 2001 : Sprint E|Solutions Opens Colorado Internet Center

📅 November 8, 2001 - Sprint Corp. announced yesterday that it is strengthening its services to customers in the Rocky Mountain and Northwest regions by opening a Sprint E|Solutions (sprintesolutions.com) Internet Center in the DenverMetro politan area. Pre-selling for the Colorado facility has already begun and is available for customer occupancy today. A grand opening event is scheduled for Dec. 12, 2001.

For locating its new Metro Denver Internet Center in Adams County, SprintE|Solutions will be presented a Capital Investment Award from Adams CountyEconomic Development. The award ceremonies will be held on Nov. 15, 2001,recognizing Sprint's new multi-million dollar, 150,000-square-foot Coloradofacility.
Further support comes from one of the Colorado Internet Center's earliestcustomers, Englewood, Colo.-based Destination Hotels and Resorts(destinationhotels.com). DH&R is the sixth largest property management organization focused on premier independent properties.
Kathleen McIntee, CFO of DH&R, said the following about the company'sdecision to work with Sprint E|Solutions as its managed hosting provider,"Sprint E|Solutions exemplifies the highest level of customer service,solutions and capabilities. They understand our business priorities and metall of our requirements to ensure a secure and reliable infrastructure forour Web site. They provided a flexible solution while lowering our ITcosts, allowing us to focus our time on our core business."
In addition to offering managed hosting and co-location services, theColorado Internet Center offers customers a central "point-of-business" forobtaining complete solutions. Customers may visit or contact the center forcustomized solutions in supply chain management, customer relationshipmanagement, sales force automation and enterprise resource planning systems.
The center also will provide solutions for today's most critical ITinfrastructure needs, including services for wireless networking and mobilecomputing, business continuity planning, security, and mission-critical datastorage.
"There is a misconception that all data centers are created alike," saidKeith Paglusch, president of Sprint E|Solutions. "Our Internet Centers -Sprint's unique next-generation data centers - give customers a new level ofvalue beyond co- ocation and hosting. Customers can now come to us at anystage of a business challenge and get complete customized or pre-configuredInternet-based solutions for their specific needs."
The Colorado Internet Center, the eighth Sprint E|Solutions has openedacross the country, sits directly on Sprint's high-speed, fiber-optic Tier 1backbone, enabling performance with unsurpassed reliability needed formission-critical applications. In addition, Sprint's comprehensive supportprovides a variety of managed-server applications and transport services,all backed by highly focused customer service.
The Colorado Internet Center features a secure and reliable physicalenvironment to safeguard the data that is at the heart of every business.This world-class facility is custom designed with raised floors, HVACtemperature-control systems and private, locked cabinets and cages. Inaddition, the Internet Center offers a wide range of physical securityfeatures, including smoke detection and fire suppression systems,in-facility security personnel, and a 24x7 secured access system, as well asvideo surveillance and security breach alarms.
The Colorado facility joins other operational Sprint E|Solutions InternetCenters in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Kansas City, New York City, Reston, Va.and Sacramento, Calif. Additional centers planned for opening in 2001include Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, Calif.
The Boston and New York City Internet Centers recently received third-partyassurances on the adequacy of controls and the availability, security,integrity and maintainability of their Web-hosting, managed-hosting andco-location services under Statement of Auditing Standards Number 70 (SAS70) and SysTrust assurances. The Colorado facility is on the list ofadditional Sprint E|Solutions Internet Centers under evaluation forcertification in 2002.
Web hosting, managed hosting and co-location services offered by Sprint haveachieved certification under the SunToneSM Certification and BrandingProgram. These services offered in the domestic Sprint E|Solutions InternetCenters meet the SunTone Program's availability, reliability, security andperformance standards.