AirFlash Establishes Data Center in the United Kingdom; Global Communications Company to Provide Secure, Scalable Data Management for AirFlash's Swelling Mobile Footprint.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONDON London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. , England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2001 AirFlash, Inc., the premier development platform provider for building location-based wireless applications, announced today that it has strengthened its presence in Europe by opening a data center in the United Kingdom. AirFlash has appointed Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications. , Inc., a leading provider of complex Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the hosting for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations, to provide infrastructure hardware and network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. , reporting and management to support AirFlash UK operations. The new data center provides the latest hardware, environmental monitoring and control, increased system reliability through redundant subsystems, scalable storage, optimum data security, and is physically located near major public and private interconnects to maximize connectivity rate and overall site performance. "The mobile market is taking off like a rocket, with some experts estimating 1 billion global users by 2002," said Korak Mitra, COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. for AirFlash. "We're experiencing rapid adoption rate of our mobile services in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany. The only way we can sustain such growth is to outsource certain enabling elements of our business. This strategy forces us to focus on exploiting the potential of wireless location relevant technologies." AirFlash designs, builds and deploys a comprehensive family of software solutions, collectively called SmartZone(TM), that enable wireless carriers and portals to offer location-based services See mobile positioning. to their mobile customers. SmartZone-enabled location-relevant applications are available on AT&T PocketNet service in the U.S., the Orange service in the U.K., Viag Interkom and E-Plus Mobilfunk services in Germany and through the Mviva portal throughout Europe. For more information on AirFlash, visit www.airflash.com. About AirFlash AirFlash empowers mobile carriers and portals with products for building location-based wireless services, including SmartZone platform and applications. Founded in July 1998 by industry pioneer Rama Aysola, AirFlash is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Saratoga, Calif., with offices in London, Washington D.C., Dusseldorf, and Sydney and funding from investors Inktomi Corp., Bay Partners, Band of Angels, PTI PTI - Portable Tool Interface , Trio Investments and Pitch Johnson/Asset Management Company. AirFlash also has a strategic alliance with Inktomi to enable advanced m-commerce and search capabilities tailored for mobile users. Note to Editors: AirFlash and SmartZone are trademarks of AirFlash, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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