Aug, 2001 : Patagon Outsources Internet Infrastructure to Exodus

📅 August 8, 2001 - Exodus Communications, Inc. (exodus.net) yesterday announced that Patagon International, Inc. (patagon.com), a diversified financial services company, has chosen Exodus to host and manage its Internet operations.

Patagon selected Exodus to provide consultation for its complexinfrastructure through the company's professional services group, inaddition to professional and managed services, and security services.
"Patagon is a financial destination serving customers around the world,twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We needed an extensive, robustand reliable Internet infrastructure," said James Goodwin, Patagon's globalhead of operations and technology.
Patagon says it is striving to partner with customers during their evolutiontowards financial independence and to enhance the portfolio of their users.Companies today are increasingly outsourcing their Internet operations inorder to reduce their total cost of ownership and allow them to focus solelyon their core business. In a report from June 2001, Forrester Researchstates that firms can save 25 to 80 percent of their Web infrastructurecosts by hosting.
Exodus offers a variety of services, including system and network managementsolutions and professional services, to help ensure optimal performance,availability and security for customers' Web sites.
"An enterprise like Patagon needs more than just racks and bandwidth. Itsbusiness requires a solid Internet infrastructure, a team of experts toprovide professional services support on an ongoing basis, and servicesbuilt to specs," said Ellen M. Hancock, chairman and CEO for Exodus.