Development Alternatives, Inc., Moves its IT operation to Safety with NaviSite.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003 NaviSite provides reliable operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. in the face of potential power failures NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAVI), a leading provider of application management, content distribution, messaging and infrastructure management services, announced that Development Alternatives Inc., (DAI) chose NaviSite's I-Services infrastructure to provide secure and reliable Internet and email services in the face of likely power and service disruptions from Hurricane Isabel This article is about the 2003 hurricane; there was also a Tropical Storm Isabel during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Isabel was the costliest and deadliest hurricane in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. in September of this year. Isabel was one of 14 hurricanes that reached the Mid-Atlantic region during this hurricane season Hurricane season refers to a period in a year when hurricanes usually form. For more information see: Tropical cyclone#Times of formation. For a lists of past seasons, see:
DAI is an international consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a that was founded in 1970 to help business, government, and society around the world solve economic development problems. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from , the company employs more than 600 people worldwide and maintains a global network of approximately 16,000 individual associates and 150 institutional collaborators. The Internet and e-mail provide a mission-critical business service for DAI, and the likely threat of power and service outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. drove DAI to seek a safer environment with NaviSite for their vital e-mail server See mail server. . Working closely with DAI, NaviSite helped move the company's system into NaviSite's Vienna, Va., data center, located in northern Virginia's high-tech region near Washington, D.C. The center offers 11,099 square feet of cabinet, cage and custom space, as well as roof rights for microwave links and other antennae systems and, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , plenty of bandwidth and redundant power. The installation was completed quickly and DAI's service experienced no downtime from either the conversion cutover (communications, networking) cutover - /cut-ov*/ Switching from an old (hardware and/or software) system to a replacement system, covering the overlap from when the new system is live until the old system has been shut down. , or the power shortages that threatened the area. "Our concern was that power or Internet service failures were a real possibility and would leave our mail server down," commented Larry Campbell Larry W. Campbell, MBA (born February 28 1948, in Brantford, Ontario) is the former Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a Member of the Canadian Senate. Election , IT director for Development Alternatives Inc. "NaviSite's state-of-the-art data center in Vienna, VA provided us with a scalable, resilient, and secure operating environment. Our clients and employees use e-mail as a primary means of communication, so we needed to be absolutely sure that our systems were with a reliable provider, and that was key to our decision. NaviSite enabled us to weather the storm." "We are very pleased to have Development Alternatives hosted within our northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. data center," said Tim Burks, vice president of I-Services for NaviSite. "We had to move quickly as the storm was predicted to hit almost immediately, but we were able to get the systems up and running fast. With redundant bandwidth, remote hands, and technical assistance at the location, Development Alternatives can focus on the business of winning contracts and servicing clients while it leaves the IT heavy-lifting to NaviSite," he added. NaviSite operates 14 U.S. data centers and provides customers with a financially stable, reliable, and nationwide service that is monitored 24x7 by a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. Network Operation Center (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) and supported by remote hands/technical assistance at each location. Additional services include fully managed hosting, application management and content delivery (CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ) services. NaviSite data centers are carrier-neutral facilities, which ensures they provide connectivity via a wide range of separate carriers, and thus offer the most competitive bandwidth pricing. About Development Alternatives Inc Development Alternatives Inc., (DAI) is an employee-owned international consulting firm with a reputation for creative thinking, outstanding professional staff, and excellent services to our clients. A consistent mission, unchanged from the day DAI was founded in 1970, drives all of their work: helping business, government, and civil society solve economic development problems. DAI is the lead firm of the DAI Group, a growing global partnership that includes firms in England, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and Brazil. For more information on Development Alternative Intentional, please visit their website at: http://www.dai.com. About NaviSite, Inc. Founded in 1997, NaviSite, Inc, (NASDAQ: NAVI) is a leading provider of application management, content distribution, messaging and infrastructure management services for more than 800 customers consisting of mid-market enterprises, divisions of large multinational companies, and government agencies. For more information, please visit http://www.navisite.com. This release contains forward-looking statements that address a variety of subjects, including cost savings and efficiency gains. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including without limitation, those with respect to NaviSite's goals, plans and strategies set forth herein, are forward-looking statements. The following important factors and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: NaviSite's success is dependent on its ability to achieve and maintain profitability; NaviSite's success is dependent upon its ability to integrate the companies and assets it recently acquired; NaviSite's recent acquisitions may not produce expected cost savings, operational efficiencies or revenues; NaviSite's products, technologies and resources may not successfully interoperate with the technology, resources and/or applications of third parties; NaviSite's success, including its ability to decrease its cash burn rate, improve its cash position, and grow its business and revenues to reach profitability, depends on its ability to execute on its business strategy and the continued and increased demand for NaviSite's services and the Internet in general; NaviSite's business may be adversely affected by further slow down in general economic conditions; the loss of customers due to the shutdown of their businesses; decreased or delayed purchase patterns of prospective or current customers or loss of current customers and market consolidation; the decreased renewal rate of our customers; increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite competes; the effects of recent combinations involving affiliated entities of ClearBlue Technologies, Inc.; the effects of any future acquisitions of businesses or technologies; changes in the uses of the Internet; and possible failure of systems or internal infrastructure. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by NaviSite with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. of NaviSite and the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. of NaviSite. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made by us. |
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