Jul 27, 2001 : IBM Expands Web-Hosting Services
📅 - IBM (ibm.net) has unveiled 30 new Web-hosting services to meet growing market demand, following its announcement last week that IBM's Web-hosting customer contracts exceeded $1 billion during the first six months of 200.
The managed services range from programs to help small business customersget retail Web sites operating quickly, to new security and Linux offeringsfor larger hosting customers.
IBM Global Services operates 37 e-business Hosting Centers around the world.During the past three months, IBM opened centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan andBuenos Aires, Argentina, and next month will open a new center in Shanghai,China.
"When you're running a company that's dependent upon the Internet, you wantyour Web sites to be up and running all the time," said Jim Corgel, generalmanager of e-business hosting services for IBM Global Services. We continueto invest in new hosting services that allow our customers to focus onrunning their core businesses. We'll handle their Web operations."
Half of the 30 new fully managed services deal with security on the Web,which industry analysts say remain a priority for organizations doingbusiness on the Internet. IBM's new security services, which enhance theexisting portfolio of customized security services, help customers to assesstheir current Web-hosting systems, to add new security features and tomonitor and manage security devices and systems.
"We deal with highly sensitive tax information for some of the largestcompanies in the world," said Jeff Wenger, chief technology officer of TaxTechnologies. "We turned to IBM for our Web-hosting needs because of itsexperience in hosting other financial institutions, as well as IBM's secure,high-speed Web environment."
New e-business Hosting Services for security include:
Security health check services to enable customers to assesstheir Web sites, and "ethical hacking" services that suggest ways to improveWeb site security. Firewall construction and management to restrict access toauthorized users and applications. Intrusion detection to monitor customers' network andservers' systems, including alerts if there's evidence of hacker attacks. Virus alert monitoring so a customer can take actions inconnection with the latest known viruses.
Along with security services, IBM is introducing e-commerce and Linux-basedservices. Small- and medium-sized can set up e-com using new services thatfeature IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro, a comprehensive application thatincludes Web domain and address services, server, network and backup andrestoration services.
IBM is also adding Linux to the list of core operating systems that itsupports in its e-business Hosting Centers, which gives customers theability to use Linux-based applications for hardware, software, design,implementation and hosting of Linux-based applications. Customers will beable to pick support for Linux Red Hat 6.2 along with applications writtenfor AIX, NT, Solaris and Windows 2000.
The managed services range from programs to help small business customersget retail Web sites operating quickly, to new security and Linux offeringsfor larger hosting customers.
IBM Global Services operates 37 e-business Hosting Centers around the world.During the past three months, IBM opened centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan andBuenos Aires, Argentina, and next month will open a new center in Shanghai,China.
"When you're running a company that's dependent upon the Internet, you wantyour Web sites to be up and running all the time," said Jim Corgel, generalmanager of e-business hosting services for IBM Global Services. We continueto invest in new hosting services that allow our customers to focus onrunning their core businesses. We'll handle their Web operations."
Half of the 30 new fully managed services deal with security on the Web,which industry analysts say remain a priority for organizations doingbusiness on the Internet. IBM's new security services, which enhance theexisting portfolio of customized security services, help customers to assesstheir current Web-hosting systems, to add new security features and tomonitor and manage security devices and systems.
"We deal with highly sensitive tax information for some of the largestcompanies in the world," said Jeff Wenger, chief technology officer of TaxTechnologies. "We turned to IBM for our Web-hosting needs because of itsexperience in hosting other financial institutions, as well as IBM's secure,high-speed Web environment."
New e-business Hosting Services for security include:
Security health check services to enable customers to assesstheir Web sites, and "ethical hacking" services that suggest ways to improveWeb site security. Firewall construction and management to restrict access toauthorized users and applications. Intrusion detection to monitor customers' network andservers' systems, including alerts if there's evidence of hacker attacks. Virus alert monitoring so a customer can take actions inconnection with the latest known viruses.
Along with security services, IBM is introducing e-commerce and Linux-basedservices. Small- and medium-sized can set up e-com using new services thatfeature IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro, a comprehensive application thatincludes Web domain and address services, server, network and backup andrestoration services.
IBM is also adding Linux to the list of core operating systems that itsupports in its e-business Hosting Centers, which gives customers theability to use Linux-based applications for hardware, software, design,implementation and hosting of Linux-based applications. Customers will beable to pick support for Linux Red Hat 6.2 along with applications writtenfor AIX, NT, Solaris and Windows 2000.
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