Nov 8, 2001 : Optiglobe Expands into Mexico

📅 November 8, 2001 - OptiGlobe (optiglobe.com), a Latin American provider of web-enabled IT outsourcing and data center services, announced today that it is expanding operations into Mexico City, rounding out its pan-regional presence.

OptiGlobe will offer the Mexican market a comprehensive portfolio ofinfrastructure, connectivity, professional, support and managed services.These services will enable Mexican and multi-national companies to rolloutand operate mission-critical IT systems faster and with lower costs andbetter quality than is possible in-house. OptiGlobe already has operationsin São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The company will officiallylaunch its Mexico City operations in the first quarter of 2002.
"OptiGlobe's key enterprise customers have requested a Mexico solution tomeet their regional IT outsourcing needs," explained Scott Puritz, chairmanand CEO at OptiGlobe. "By offering companies in Mexico the same reliable andscalable services that OptiGlobe already provides in Brazil and Argentina,we are building upon our successes and meeting the market needs in theregion. With strong backing from our key strategic vendors and currentcustomers, we expect OptiGlobe-Mexico to be very successful."
"As more companies in Mexico rollout enterprise applications, Web sites andcomplex e-commerce systems, they are turning to providers that can offersecure and reliable facilities and value-added managed services," saidGabriel Moreno Ledezma, Senior Telecommunications Analyst with InternationalData Corporation. "This is resulting in explosive growth in the data centerservices and IT outsourcing market. This market is the fastest growingsegment of IP-based services in Mexico, with a compound annual growth rateof 58 percent between 2000 and 2005. In our view, OptiGlobe is one of veryfew players with the expertise and resources required to meet the servicesand infrastructure needs of companies operating in Mexico."
OptiGlobe-Mexico is led by Country manager Ramon Quintana, a seasonedexecutive with more than 15 years of experience in the IT, financial andtelecommunications industries. Quintana came to OptiGlobe from NCR, where hewas Latin America vice president of Operations for NCR's data warehousingsubsidiary, the Teradata Solutions Group. Under Quintana's leadership, NCRincreased its Latin American data warehousing and CRM customer baseeight-fold.
"OptiGlobe has a strong reputation throughout Latin America for the qualityof its employees, infrastructure and service delivery," said Quintana. "Wehear time and time again from customers that OptiGlobe professionals are anextension of their IT staff, providing valuable management of their mostimportant IT systems."