BrainBuzz.com Partners with GlobalCenter.TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000 Leading Online IT Career Vortal and Leading Internet Services Business Team Up BrainBuzz.com, the leading online career vortal for IT professionals, announced today that it has partnered with GlobalCenter Inc. for its complex 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 management services. GlobalCenter, a Cisco Powered Network member, is the leading Internet services business delivering connectivity, data centers, "on demand" utility applications and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . A heavily trafficked online community for IT professionals, BrainBuzz.com provides news, information, e-cruiting services, and online training and certification to more than 250,000 registered users. GlobalCenter's track record in helping companies deliver highly reliable, highly scalable Web sites to its customers aligns well with BrainBuzz.com's growth to date and goals. "BrainBuzz.com's expertise is in providing content and services to IT professionals, not supporting an Internet infrastructure," said Dan Doyle, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of BrainBuzz.com and former Danka Business Systems PLC (Nasdaq: DANKY) chief executive. "By leveraging GlobalCenter's expertise in providing hosting and management solutions for rapid-growth Internet companies, we can focus on our core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
BrainBuzz.com will use Cisco servers, renowned for their reliability, redundancy and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . This arrangement provides BrainBuzz.com with the security and 24x7 reliability it needs to support the site. "GlobalCenter's services are ideal for community portals such as BrainBuzz.com that need to concentrate on building content for a large customer base without the underlying worry of infrastructure issues," said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. J. Hindery, Jr., Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter. "Our highly scalable solutions will help BrainBuzz.com grow as quickly as its user base, providing the best services for building customer loyalty and capturing market share." About GlobalCenter GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. (stock symbol) ). As a leading Internet services business, GlobalCenter delivers the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global "e"conomy. By seamlessly integrating its proprietary infrastructure, applications and complex Web hosting, GlobalCenter provides customers the Internet infrastructure necessary to manage complex online enterprises. GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web. Global Crossing, GlobalCenter's parent company, is building, and offering services over, the world's first global fiber optic network, which will have more than 101,000 route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. , serving five continents, 27 countries and more than 200 major cities. For more information, contact GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net or Global Crossing at www.globalcrossing.com. About BrainBuzz.com BrainBuzz.com is the leading career vortal for IT professionals and is becoming the leading online and resource site for network engineers, developers, Web masters and IT job seekers. With more than 250,000 members, BrainBuzz.com's hosted technology forums, certification and training resources, technology news and technology-oriented job listings represent a focal point focal point n. See focus. for IT professionals across multiple skill sets and interests. For more information, please visit http://www.brainbuzz.com. |
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