Driveway Selects GlobalCenter to Host Online Storage Service; Enterprise-Class Infrastructure Brings Driveway Customers Faster Connections, Increased Availability.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Driveway has signed GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq:GBLX GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. (stock symbol) ) subsidiary and leading Internet services company, to host the Internet infrastructure behind driveway.com, increasing the speed, availability and reliability of the leading online storage service. GlobalCenter's services integrate the latest technology into an outsourced model that specializes in the four elements that are critical for e-businesses to succeed in the new economy: connectivity, data centers, on-demand Internet applications and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . As a Global Crossing company, GlobalCenter services are provisioned directly over the Global Crossing network, which will have more than 101,000 route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. , serving five continents, 27 countries and more than 200 major cities. Physically located in major metropolitan business areas, GlobalCenter's data centers are seamlessly integrated with the Global Crossing IP network infrastructure, condensing con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. the network path of content delivery. Customers benefit from higher availability and speed of service, as well as increased reliability and security. Along with GlobalCenter, Driveway has recently announced deployment of other infrastructure components from leading providers including CAT, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Oracle, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and VERITAS. Driveway.com provides application service providers (ASPs) and more than six million registered members convenient and easy-to-use online file storage. Customers can save, access and share files including presentations, spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
"Through our relationship with GlobalCenter, we will have access to their robust and reliable data centers as well as to a global IP network," Chris Logan, chief executive officer, Driveway, said. "With our growing end user customer base and the increasing number of members using driveway.com to build company intranets, we recognized that we needed to rapidly scale our Internet infrastructure, as well as offer the best hosting environment See hosted environment. available." About Driveway San Francisco-based Driveway pioneered and is today an industry leader in Internet-based file storage. Through driveway.com, the company offers its members a reliable way to access, store and share digital information from any Web-enabled computer. For additional information, visit Driveway at www.driveway.com. Copyright (c) 2000 Driveway Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Driveway(SM) is a service mark of Driveway Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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