Aug 23, 2001 : Data Return UK Wins MSN Arabia Site

📅 August 23, 2001 - Data Return Corporation (datareturn.com), a leading global provider of managed hosting services, recently announced that it has been selected by LinkDotNet (link.net) to provide support for the new MSN Arabia (arabia.msn.com) portal. LinkDotNet has also signed a global Catalyst partnership agreement with Data Return.

Under the terms of the Catalyst agreement, LinkDotNet will include DataReturn as its preferred managed hosting provider for the fully integratedWeb solutions they deliver to their customers. MSN Arabia is the firstinternational portal to enter the Arab World and will be in Arabic andEnglish to cater to all users in the region. The site will serve to launchthe MSN brand to the entire Middle East, Africa and India, and there arealready 1.8 million Hotmail subscribers registered. This number is expectedto significantly increase with the launch of the site.
LinkDotNet and Microsoft will jointly manage the application for MSN Arabia,and Data Return will provide the managed hosting services for the Internetinfrastructure 24x7 from Dallas while selected parts of the site will behosted in the Arab region in order to provide easier access from everycountry.
"We performed an extensive search of managed hosting providers, and we choseData Return over others because of its commitment to Microsoft technology.Data Return can provide unrivalled expertise on the platform, and has theability to deliver a highly available, secure and flexible architecture thatcan scale to meet the phenomenal customer demand we anticipate in theregion," said Ahmad Khalaf, CTO of LinkDotNet. "In addition, we wanted tohouse the servers in the United States - leveraging Data Return's globalreach represents a key savings to the bottom line. Now, our developmentstaff can concentrate on adding functionality to MSN Arabia without havingto worry about whether or not the site is available to the millions ofanticipated users in the region."
LinkDotNet won the MSN Arabia portal business from bigger and more capitalresourceful companies in the Middle East due to its focus on the Microsoftplatform. By integrating their solution with Data Return, LinkDotNetensuresits core values are closely aligned with its managed hosting providerand can achieve a true partnership for the project and ongoing projects asthe partnership grows over time.
"LinkDotNet has proven itself to be a major player in the Middle East bysecuring the MSN Arabia business," said Ken Garber, senior vice president,marketing, sales and business development for Data Return. "We look forwardto working with the LinkDotNet team as they scale the MSN Arabia site toserve millions in the region."

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