Thursday, March 6, 2008

Plano-based SoftLayer signs five year, $40 million contract with Internap

By Pegasus News wire

PLANO — Internap Network Services Corporation, a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions and SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., a rapidly growing and innovative supplier of on-demand hosting services, announced the signing of a 5-year $40 million contract under which Internap will deliver data center colocation, route-optimized IP networking and content delivery network (CDN) services.

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With a name like Internap, aggressive multinational expansion is practically guaranteed

The company hopes that these Internap services will expand SoftLayer’s on-demand hosting infrastructure to the Eastern United States and be seamlessly integrated with SoftLayer’s data centers in Dallas and Seattle. This new agreement is in addition to the 5-year $16 million contract announced by the two companies on November 13, 2007.

“Internap and SoftLayer are bringing to the market a new, tightly coupled managed hosting model that is delivering enterprise-class, large-scale computing by the slice,” said Lance Crosby, chief executive officer at SoftLayer. “With Internap we’ve been able to get to market faster and deliver higher quality solutions that our customers value and are core to their business operations. The combination of Internap’s world-class IP networking, data center colocation and content delivery network (CDN), along with SoftLayer’s innovative product development, flexible deployment and automation tools, creates and delivers the most advanced on-demand hosting services available today.”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers next generation webhosting and on-demand datacenter services.

Source: Softlayer

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