Cervalis Offers Organizations Significantly Increased Business Value.

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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001

Cervalis Joins Cisco Powered Network Program, Delivers Suite of

Products & Services to Ensure High Network Availability and

Performance

One of the key challenges faced by any service provider in selecting network infrastructure and management tools is how to optimize existing technology in order to provide customers with the highest availability, superior security and advanced customer service.

Cervalis, a next generation provider of IT outsourcing and managed hosting services, today announced its suite of advanced products and services based on networking solutions from Cisco Systems Inc. Cervalis also announced joining the Cisco Powered Network program, having built its network infrastructure and networking value-added product portfolio on Cisco products and solutions.

By using the strength of Cisco products, Cervalis is able to increase the value of customers' investments considerably by offering end users the benefits of service-centric management practices and the highest level of network availability, reliability, scalability, security and performance possible. Using Cisco solutions, Cervalis designed its fault-tolerant Internet Data Centers based on the highest possible standards for reliability and security, so that each component has fully redundant power and networking connections.

Cisco products included in Cervalis Internet Data Centers include Cisco 12000 series Internet routers, connected to self-healing SONET rings, Cisco Catalyst(R) 6500 series switches, CSS 11000 Content Services Switches and Cisco Cache Engines. Cervalis manages this highly sophisticated Cisco Powered Network infrastructure around the clock from its state-of-the-art Network Operations Centers (NOCs), thereby offering its customers unsurpassed managed hosting, content delivery, VPNs and managed security services.

"Cervalis' Cisco Powered Network allows the NOCs within Cervalis' highly secure Internet Data Centers to provide proactive network management of networking and security infrastructure 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," said Kevin Outcalt, senior director of service provider marketing for Cisco. "This means that Cervalis' enterprise customers can focus on their core business and mission-critical application issues, not their network issues."

Cervalis President Michael Boccardi added, "Through comprehensive service level agreements with our customers, Cervalis assures the highest levels of customer satisfaction by continuously monitoring capacity and fine-tuning performance, processes and procedures. In addition to standard monthly reports, customers have the option to view performance statistics and remotely manage their resources. In short, we're going above and beyond typical hosting services - we're providing the best possible customer care supported by the best possible tools and equipment."

"Having a Network Operations Center capable of employing these kinds of processes to precisely monitor, assess and report trends and analysis, significantly increases the value of customers' investments in outsourced services," said Lew Hollerbach, managing director, service providers of Aberdeen Group. "Relationships of this ilk within the managed hosting market clearly demonstrate a shift not just toward increased economic value, but increased quality, service and sophistication for the end user."

About Cervalis

Cervalis provides outsourced IT infrastructure and premier managed hosting solutions that redefine the way companies conduct mission-critical business on the Internet. Through its state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant Internet Data Centers in Dutchess County, N.Y. and Stamford, Conn., Cervalis offers world-class customer support with the technology needed to scale complex environments reliably and cost effectively. Cervalis' comprehensive approach to Internet hosting and pre-architected solutions provide customers with the ultra-secure high-availability and high-performance infrastructure they need to keep critical e-commerce applications up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To learn more about the Cervalis advantage, please visit www.cervalis.com or call toll-free 866-602-2020.