Cervalis Partners With Plural to Broaden Microsoft Platforms Capabilities; Cervalis to Leverage Plural's Microsoft Platform Expertise to Offer New Services for Customers.Business/Technology Editors STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Next-generation managed hosting and IT outsourcing services provider Cervalis(R), today announced a partnership with leading professional IT services firm Plural, Inc., to develop additional services for Microsoft platforms. Through this partnership, Cervalis' customers will now have access to Plural's strong Microsoft expertise in consulting, web and application development and new generation web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . Plural's customers will benefit from Cervalis' IT and Internet infrastructure management services that deliver 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. , scalable and secure operations. The partnership allows both parties to offer end-to-end solutions that reduce the customer's IT operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales while raising service levels. "Cervalis' customers depend on us to deliver best-of-breed technology, services and management expertise that will help them meet their business goals," said Michael Boccardi, President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Cervalis. "Partnerships with industry experts such as Plural will uphold Cervalis' position as a technology innovator and leading service provider." The partnership with Cervalis will augment Plural's consulting, development and integration services with advanced hosting and IT outsourcing services provided through Cervalis' state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers. There, customer environments are proactively managed, scaled and secured by Cervalis' Network Operation Centers staff 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With N+1 redundant network and power systems, 24x365 monitoring and a 99.999 percent availability guarantee, Cervalis manages the customer's critical business applications, regardless of size or complexity. About Plural Plural, Inc. is a professional services company specializing in technology consulting, application development and solution integration. Plural's 13-year heritage lies in its delivery of innovative and complex systems that help clients solve critical business challenges and deliver ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . From Commerce to Collaboration to .NET applications, Plural designs and builds robust solutions focused in five key service areas: Collaboration and Content Management, Business Intelligence, eCommerce and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , Application Development and Integration and Strategic Technology Platform. The company is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with offices in major cities across the US. Plural has delivered more than 1,500 business critical solutions, with 30% of Fortune 100 companies leveraging Plural-built systems. The company's clientele includes Chase Manhattan Bank The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in New York City. , Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. , FleetBoston Financial, H2O Plus, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen , Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co., Nasdaq, PanAmSat, Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Qwest among others. Visit Plural online at www.plural.com. About Cervalis Cervalis is a next-generation provider of outsourced IT infrastructure and premier managed hosting services that redefine the way companies conduct mission-critical business on the Internet. Through its state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant Internet Data Centers, Cervalis offers world-class customer support with the technology needed to scale complex environments reliably and cost effectively. Cervalis' comprehensive approach to Internet and IT outsourcing solutions provides 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. |
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