RES SURPASSES FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR OF PROVIDING 100% UPTIME TO ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
SACRAMENTO, California (April 20, 2005) - RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (RES), a leading IT outsourcing provider of software as a service and on-demand solutions, today announced it has surpassed 1,500 days of continuous uptime for its Sacramento-based Enterprise Data Center facility. RES has achieved 100 percent uptime since the company began business operations in April 2001.
"RES strives to provide availability and service excellence that exceed industry standards," said Yatish Mishra, president and CTO of RES. "Reaching this important milestone of 1,500 continuous days of uptime is a testament to our dedicated operations and facilities staff, and further establishes RES' reputation as a leading provider of IT services and solutions essential for competing in today's demanding 24-by-7 business environment."
RES' state-of-the-art, Class "A+" Enterprise Data Center provides true Zero Single Point of Failure electrical and cooling distribution systems. By providing Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients like Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Inc. (NYSE: HIT), NVIDIA(R) Corporation, and Flextronics International unprecedented levels of availability, RES allows its clients to maintain 24x7x365 access to their mission-critical systems and data without any planned or unplanned interruptions.
"RES understands that even a few minutes of downtime within a data center can have a catastrophic effect on a company's business operations, not to mention the long-term impact to sales, brand equity, corporate reputation, and ultimately, its bottom line," said Dave Roberson, president and COO of Hitachi Data Systems and member of RES' board of directors. "RES has built a world-class infrastructure that, combined with a wealth of industry experience and expertise, ensures its clients have the highest level of systems availability necessary to compete in today's global marketplace."
About RagingWire
RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (RES) provides highly custom and flexible IT managed services and world-class IT infrastructure solutions that accommodate the business needs of large, data-intensive enterprise companies. RES operates a highly reliable and secure Enterprise Data Center facility that offers "five nines" (99.999%) availability and highly scalable power and cooling in conjunction with fully managed IT solutions that maintain Fortune 1000 companies' mission-critical, back-office IT systems and applications. As a result, RES enables its clients to reduce their operating costs, speed time to market, and focus on their core competencies. For more information about RES, access www.ragingwire.com.
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EQUINIX TO PROVIDE OUTSOURCED DATA CENTER SERVICES FOR TOWER GROUP, INC.
Property and Casualty Insurance Company Selects Premium Equinix Data Center for Disaster Recovery
Foster City, CA April 20, 2005 Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that Tower Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWGP) has selected one of Equinix‚s New York area Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers to provide an offsite data center facility. Tower Group will use this deployment to Equinix‚s high-performance data center in conjunction with its own IT capabilities in New Jersey to create a more flexible and reliable network infrastructure.
Tower Group, Inc., headquartered in New York City, offers property and casualty insurance products and services through its insurance company and insurance service subsidiaries. Its insurance company subsidiary, Tower Insurance Company of New York, is rated "A-" (Excellent) by A.M. Best and offers commercial insurance products to small to medium size businesses and personal insurance products to individuals. Its insurance services subsidiary, Tower Risk Management, acts as a managing general agency, adjusts claims and negotiates reinsurance terms on behalf of other insurance companies. In March 2005, Tower Group, Inc. acquired North American Lumber Insurance Company, which was subsequently renamed, Tower National Insurance Company.
The move to Equinix‚s New York area IBX center is expected to provide Tower Group with a flexible platform for disaster recovery, as well as an opportunity to leverage the performance and cost benefits of directly interconnecting to an aggregation of network service providers and Internet companies at a single, centralized location. Equinix‚s concentration of networks can enable Tower Group to reduce the costs of reaching these partners in multiple, disparate locations and through traditional local loop arrangements.
In addition to the interconnection benefits, Equinix‚s premium data centers provide a redundant and secure physical infrastructure for the deployment of IT operations. The power operations of each center include a high-performance backup system that ensures uninterrupted power even in the event of utility power disruption. Equinix‚s HVAC systems provide industry-leading environmental control, including the ability to accommodate the latest in high power density equipment such as blade servers.
About Equinix
Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systemsintegrators and network services providers. Through the company‚s 15 Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers in five countries, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.
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