Customer Demand for Hosting Drives Opening of New Qwest CyberCenter in Seattle.Qwest Now Operates 14 State-of-the-Art Facilities Nationwide DENVER -- Qwest Communications
See: New York Stock Exchange : Q) today announced that it has opened a new world-class CyberCenter in the Seattle area to provide secure, reliable and scalable hosting services to businesses. With the opening of the new center, Qwest now operates 14 CyberCenters nationwide. Qwest CyberCenters are ideal for businesses seeking dependable and safe hosting solutions to manage and protect all critical data and systems. By outsourcing hosting and application services See ASP and Web services. , businesses can maximize efficiencies and realize significant cost savings. Qwest CyberCenters provide expert support for customers to conduct e-commerce, operate complex Web sites, and manage entire IT environments including enterprise applications, databases and data storage. "Qwest Hosting Services have proven to be a dependable, secure and cost-effective solution for Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. ," said Dean DuVall, managing director for IT customer services and infrastructure at Alaska Airlines. "Through our relationship with Qwest Hosting, we are able to maintain a secondary e-commerce presence for our Web-based reservations, vacations, mileage plan and check-in systems. Having this capability significantly increases the performance and availability of our most important and visible Web site." Qwest offers a full spectrum of CyberCenter([R])solutions including collocation collocation - co-location , 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. , application and database monitoring and management, storage management and business protection services. The facilities offer 24-hour-a-day staffing, indoor and outdoor security monitoring and biometric access screening. CyberCenters are equipped to withstand disastrous conditions and protect customer systems and equipment with top-of-the-line fire-detection and fire-suppression systems. In addition, customers receive reliable connectivity to Qwest's extensive, coast-to-coast network backbone. "We are seeing a significant increase in the demand for Qwest managed hosting solutions, and the new Qwest CyberCenter will allow Qwest to expand the number of customers we can serve with leading broadband applications and network services," said Dan Yost, executive vice president of product and marketing at Qwest. "Opening the newest facility in Seattle demonstrates Qwest's continued success in the hosting arena and our ongoing commitment to providing the most comprehensive and secure solutions available." Qwest CyberCenters are state-of-the-art facilities that can house more than three million feet of data cable and fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , providing the extensive infrastructure features necessary to maintain a customer's environment. Cooling towers, water pumps and chillers provide enough cooling capacity to air-condition the equivalent of approximately 1,820 private homes. With 19.5 mega-watts of emergency power to ensure network operations, Qwest CyberCenters generate enough power for approximately 5,000 households. The 14 Qwest CyberCenters are located in 11 metropolitan areas, including Burbank, Calif.; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. ; Denver; Minneapolis; Newark, N.J.; Sacramento, Calif.; Seattle; Sterling, Va.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla. Qwest was voted "Hosting Center of the Year" in an InfoWorld reader's choice survey and was also ranked number one for providing application services in a recent America's Network end-user survey. Business customers also ranked Qwest a top data provider in a recent issue of Spokane Business Catalyst magazine Catalyst, the magazine of the Commission for Racial Equality, is a bimonthly publication of debate and analysis. It deals with issues of race, identity, citizenship, culture and community. resulting in an award in the "Best 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. Business" category. To learn more about Qwest CyberCenter services, visit http://www.qwest.com/largebusiness/enterprisesolutions/products -hosting.html. (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About Qwest Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers - locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest's industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. For more information on Qwest, and its various operating subsidiaries An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. , please go to www.qwest.com. The Qwest logo, CyberCenter and OneFlex are registered trademarks of Qwest Communications International Inc. |
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