Digex e-Link Partner Program Reaches Key Milestone; Over 100 Leading Web Design, Consulting, Development Firms Attracted by Digex Managed Servers and Dedicated Support.BELTSVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--First-tier national Internet carrier Digex, an Intermedia Intermedia - A hypertext system developed by a research group at IRIS (Brown University). Communications Company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. (Nasdaq:ICIX), today announced that the Digex e-Link(sm) Partner Program now includes more than 100 of America's leading Web Developers, Internet Integrators, and members of the System Integration community. The Digex e-Link Partner Program is designed to electronically link partners with Digex and its strategic product offerings, including Managed Servers, in order to create a consistent, mission-critical service guarantee for their end-customers. "We are excited that the Digex e-Link Partner Program has attracted the most extensive list of leading developers and consultants today," said Bryan Gernert, vice president of Sales for Digex. "Our partners choose Digex because of our ability to host and manage secure, scalable, high-performance Web solutions. Our partners want more than a simple server reboot To reload the operating system, which restarts the computer. See boot. (operating system) reboot - (From boot) A boot with the implication that the computer has not been down for long, or that the boot is a bounce intended to clear some state of wedgitude. See warm boot. or `remote hands' service; they want dedicated service with guarantees. And we have delivered." Digex manages complex Web sites, Intranets, Extranets, and Web-based enterprise systems for some of the world's leading companies, including NIKE, American Century Investments American Century Investments is a privately held investment management firm. Its headquarters are located at 4500 Main in Kansas City, Missouri, near the famous Country Club Plaza. It was formerly known as Twentieth Century Investments. The company was founded by James E. , and KRAFT Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for . News and product/service information is available at http://www.digex.net/web. "Digex Managed Server Products and Application Services See ASP and Web services. provide our partners with an arsenal of services and talent, amortized, and prioritized for our partner's benefit today," said Ellen Lynn, senior manager of Business Development for Digex. "For example, with Digex Stress Testing Determining the durability of a system by pushing it to its limits. Stress testing a network is performed by transmitting excessive numbers of packets or attempting to break in illegally. service, we can simulate the activity of 10,000 users simultaneously before the site goes live, thus ensuring optimum performance. Plus, we have added services to the Digex e-Link Partner Program that promote ease of use for our customers, including dedicated engineers, on-premise training, product incentives, and joint rewards." Digex e-Link Partners Claim Success "Digex has the hardware and the personnel to deliver the maintenance, security, capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. , administration, and problem anticipation that is unique and of significant value to our clients," said Chan Suh, 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. of AGENCY.COM. "As a top 10 nationally ranked (Forrester Report - Oct. `98) leading Internet Consulting and Development company, T3Media requires the highest quality-of-service from our hosting providers," commented Randy Malmud, Business Development Manager, T3Media. "As one of our preferred providers, Digex has defined unique support processes, such as content staging, that help us guarantee our clients the highest service levels. Digex works closely with us on a daily basis, ensuring that our developers have secure, unlimited access to our servers. They remove all of our concerns about hardware maintenance, server monitoring, and backup so that we can focus on building great Web solutions." Among the more than 1,000 managed servers in its data centers on both East and West coasts, Digex owns and manages for its customers more than 225 SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. and Oracle databases and more than 100 operating Microsoft Site Server and Site Server Commerce servers. "Digex is a great hosting provider and a great business partner," said James Rouche, CEO, Fort Point Partners. "Digex presents Fort Point Partners with well-qualified business opportunities, unique service offerings, and a passion to make sure our requirements are fulfilled. We are excited to continue presenting the benefits of our relationship to our customers." A Strategic Portfolio of Products The Digex e-Link Partner Program gives its partners access to a dynamic array of products: Digex Managed Servers provide Digex e-Link Partners the most secure, scalable, tuned implementation of Sun Solaris or Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT on the Internet. Digex UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). Plus server platform is the successful culmination of a collaborative effort by three of the most experienced leaders in business Internet services--SUN Microsystems, Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. , and Digex. The Digex NT Plus server platform is the exclusive product of two leaders in today's Internet industry--Microsoft and Digex. Taking a giant step, Digex worked with Microsoft Consulting Services The consulting arm of Microsoft which offers support for installation and maintenance of Microsoft applications and operating systems. to build the world's first and largest, high-performance, dedicated server NT facilities. The Digex Staging Server A server used to temporarily show certain users new and revised Internet and/or intranet pages before they are put into production. creates a pre-production environment for Digex e-Link partners to review and update content and site configuration changes before authorizing their transfer to the production site, contributing to increased uptime and availability. Using Digex Dedicated Management Support Teams and Digex Platinum Services, Digex e-Link Partners are afforded support teams of specific, certified talent for joint projects. Using Digex Site Stress Testing (sm) Services, Digex e-Link Program Partners have access to stress testing services that can simulate up to 10,000 simultaneous users performing given tasks. This service determines the effectiveness of a given configuration to handle various and often-unpredictable user loads and volume. Using Digex Customized Reporting Services, Digex e-Link Program Partners have the ability to offload server log files to enhance reporting accuracy. These services can offload and assemble various server log files for one-uniform report, particularly useful in multiple and distributed Web server implementations. This service also significantly reduces server wait time (CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. at 100%) by eliminating the need to run reporting software The following is a list of notable reporting software. Commercial software
Digex Application Services provides access to expert-application-focused-talent. Digex provides concentrated expertise in various databases, including Oracle, on UNIX and NT, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , groupware applications such as iChat, Microsoft NetShow, and various commerce software applications, such as CyberCash and Microsoft Site Server. Using Digex Migration Services, Digex e-Link Program Partners can migrate legacy Web sites or non-critical solutions currently hosted and managed internally or at disparate collocation data centers, such as Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications. or Frontier GlobalCenter, to Digex's Managed Servers. Migration Services can ensure that a site is migrated from one physical location to another location without downtime. The following are among the Web Developers, Internet Integrators, and Interactive Media agencies committed to success with the Digex e-Link Partner Program--and to delivering the highest-service levels across the industry: -0- -- Advis -- Mindcorps -- agency.com / Eagle River Interactive -- Newton Park -- CKS (US Web) -- NMP -- Clarity Group -- OrderTrust -- Clear Ink -- Palazzo De Mix -- Click Here -- Pantheon -- CyberSight -- PMG -- E-Media-C -- Proxicom -- Empty Street Productions -- Rare Medium -- Ft. Point Partners -- Red Sky Interactive -- Granitar -- Sitewerks-Bowne Company -- Hill, Holliday Interactive -- Stellcom Technologies -- IMC2 -- STEP Technologies -- Internet Business Advantages -- Studio Archetype / Sapient -- iQuest Solutions -- T3 Media -- iXL-Pequot Systems -- The Olympus Group -- Macquarium -- US Interactive -- Media Revolution -- Xerox Connect -- Micromodeling -- 5th Floor -- Microstate To find out more about the Digex e-Link(sm) Partner Program, visit http://www.digex.net/web/elink. Intermedia Communications is one of the nation's fastest growing telecommunications companies, providing integrated telecommunications solutions to business and government customers. These solutions include voice and data, local and long distance, and advanced network access services in major U.S. markets. Intermedia's enhanced data portfolio, including frame relay networking, ATM, and a full range of business Internet connectivity and web hosting services, offers seamless end-to-end service virtually anywhere in the world. Intermedia Communications is on the World Wide Web at www.intermedia.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. . |
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