BellSouth Expands E-Business Platform Capabilities With Security and Additional Managed Services.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 BellSouth Provides Reliable and Secure Hosting Solutions for Customers BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) announced today that it will be extending its managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality capabilities to include two additional services - Dedicated Web Hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and Managed Security Services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the - as well as upgrades to the Windows(R) 2000(TM) and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. (R) Solaris(TM) 8 operating platforms. Supported as part of BellSouth's "e-Platform," the new managed services exploit the power of an extensive fiber-based e-Business platform to deliver the speed, reliability and security required for today's mission critical e-business applications. At the core of the platform, the BellSouth e-Business Centers, support a broad spectrum of e-business applications and services in a secure location, and extend BellSouth's existing network capabilities and historical strengths in reliability, real-time availability and customer service to support today's growing Web-based economy. Today's announcement of Dedicated Web Hosting and Managed Security Services mark an expansion of BellSouth's growing e-Platform. Dedicated Web Hosting provides business customers with a complete service offering that delivers the performance, network bandwidth and flexibility needed to allow them to succeed in the e-business environment. The new service is ideal for companies who want to eliminate the hassles and overhead of setting up and managing a complicated hosting infrastructure. As part of the service, BellSouth will provide the servers and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. while also managing and maintaining the equipment to reduce capital investments customers need to make. Features of BellSouth's Dedicated Web Hosting include: -- Provision and management of equipment and operating system -- 24X7 monitoring and technical assistance -- Full suite of management reports -- Additional services to meet customer needs BellSouth Managed Security Services is a suite of value-added security services that provide BellSouth e-Business customers with protection against Internet-based security threats. BellSouth is extending this already successful service to customers who host within BellSouth's e-Business Centers. Managed Security Services provides an integrated framework of round-the-clock managed security services that support a company's e-business infrastructure. This enables a safe, trusted environment for organizations to conduct e-business. Features of BellSouth's Managed Security Services include: -- A turnkey solution that includes provisioning of certified security platforms -- Custom configuration and installation -- Intrusion Detection See IDS and IPS. and Response -- 24X7 monitoring by a staff of dedicated experts -- Managed Firewall -- Anti-virus and Anti-vandal Filtering -- Web site Blocking "These additional managed offerings enhance our comprehensive portfolio of value-added services available through BellSouth's e-Business Centers," said Rex Adams Rex Adams (born 1941) was a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and is currently serving as Chairman and Non-Executive Director (USA) of the Invesco Board of Directors. , vice president of e-Business Product Management, BellSouth Customer Markets. "Our end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. means that customers do not have to provide their own hardware, nor do they have to worry about system maintenance and security. This leaves them free to focus on their critical core competencies." "We selected to host eBank Software with BellSouth's e-Business Centers because it was the most reliable and advanced platform that we could find within the market," said David Crawford David Crawford may refer to:
Realizing that customers have a choice of equipment and platforms, BellSouth has taken steps to ensure that customers can receive outstanding service on multiple types of equipment and software platforms. To this end, BellSouth's e-Business Centers now provide support for both Solaris 8 from Sun Microsystems and Windows 2000 from Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, , allowing customers to deploy the latest operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. tools and software applications. Customers migrating to these new platform versions are assured that the on-site team of engineers at the e-Business Centers are trained and certified on both platforms and can provide complete support for customer devices featuring these platforms. BellSouth's e-Platform initiative includes state-of-the-art e-Business Centers complemented by 3.5 million miles of fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power , 1,650 central offices, 50 BellSouth Managed Facilities, 17,000 SONET rings and over 500 fast-packet switches to create a distributed e-business platform. With broadband connectivity provided by the BellSouth e-Platform, business customers get the advantage of reduced latency, better performance, continuous availability, improved caching, greater bandwidth and speed, and closer proximity to their end-users -- transforming the communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. of today into a sophisticated, e-business-enabled platform. BellSouth's e-Business Centers have attained industry accreditation including Sun Microsystems' SunTone(SM) Certification and IBM's Hosting Advantage certificate. For more information, visit www.bellsouth.com/ebiz/. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications services company headquartered in Atlanta, GA, serving more than 44 million customers in the United States and 16 other countries. Consistently recognized for customer satisfaction, BellSouth provides a full array of broadband data and e-commerce solutions to business customers, including Web hosting and other Internet services. In the residential market, BellSouth offers DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary high-speed Internet access, advanced voice features and other services. BellSouth also provides online and directory advertising services, including BellSouth(R) RealPagesSM.com. BellSouth owns 40 percent of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless company, which provides innovative wireless data. |
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