GlobalCenter Teams With Loudcloud in Increased Scalability Solutions for .Com Businesses.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Leading Silicon Valley Start-up Selects GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution for Internet Infrastructure Software Services GlobalCenter Inc., a Global Crossing company and a leading Internet Commerce Services Provider, and Loudcloud, Inc., the newly formed Smart Cloud(TM) services company, today announced they are working together to deliver scalable, available and redundant infrastructure solutions to Internet businesses. Loudcloud will be utilizing GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution for its services that require e-business customer deployment in multiple geographic secure locations. &uot;By teaming with a leading provider like GlobalCenter for its data center solutions, we can offer the complete set of infrastructure software and hosting services our customers require to grow their business more rapidly,&uot; said Marc Andreessen (person) Marc Andreessen - The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark. Andreessen has been a director since September 1994. , Chairman of Loudcloud, Inc. &uot;Loudcloud shares one of GlobalCenter's biggest commitments, namely, to successfully respond to customer needs. Loudcloud has passionately embraced the need for software services to accelerate the high growth of companies operating or moving into the digital economy,&uot; said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. J. Hindery, Jr., Chairman and 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 GlobalCenter. &uot;This is a very exciting alliance through which GlobalCenter and Loudcloud will have the opportunity to provide customers a higher level of service for the scalability of their Internet businesses.&uot; The strategy for GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution is comprised of four components that are critical to ensuring business availability and scalability: connectivity, data centers, &uot;on-demand&uot; utility applications and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . GlobalCenter seamlessly integrates its leading open systems infrastructure, applications and intelligence into services to provide a single-source solution that enables online businesses to grow and succeed. By utilizing the GlobalCenter solution, companies get enterprise-class utility applications at a significantly reduced total cost-of-ownership with less capital outlay capital outlay See capital expenditure. and fewer internal IT staff requirements. GlobalCenter's Commerce Service Solution provides businesses the Internet infrastructure to ensure the 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. , flexibility and scalability necessary to compete in the digital economy. GlobalCenter's commerce solutions combined with Loudcloud's state-of-the-art smart software Cloud(TM) services and its underlying Opsware(TM) automation technology, allow Loudcloud to deploy a highly scalable Web infrastructure on behalf of its customers much more quickly than if they did it themselves. Cloudware Services are a family of pre-built web site software services that provide the complete foundational functionality necessary to power any Internet business. Loudcloud's new Opsware Technology is its unique approach to automating the services provided through Cloud services by automating many of the manual tasks associated with managing and monitoring a high traffic Web site. Loudcloud's research and operations teams will work closely with GlobalCenter to establish replicable processes for delivering highly scalable, feature-rich Websites. About Loudcloud Loudcloud, Inc. was formed in September 1999 to build and run smart software Cloud services for high growth Internet businesses. Founded by some of the Internet's most respected leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and former Netscape executives Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for accessing directory servers. The main purpose was to handle situations that the X.500 protocol suite could not address. X. and In Sik Rhee, the company's Smart Cloud services combine a complete suite of software, infrastructure and web operations Web operations is a domain of expertise within IT systems management that involves the deployment, operation, maintenance, tuning, and repair of web-based applications. With the rise of web technologies since mid-1995, specialists have emerged that understand the complexities of services with Opsware automation technology to deliver unprecedented levels of scalability and reliability for Internet Business' web sites. Loudcloud is funded by Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon and works with leading technology companies to offer its full range of services. More information on Loudcloud can be found at www.loudcloud.com. About GlobalCenter GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. (stock symbol) ). As a leading Internet Commerce Services Provider, GlobalCenter delivers the only integrated commerce solution designed for scale in the global &uot;e&uot;conomy. By seamlessly integrating its proprietary infrastructure, applications and complex 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. , GlobalCenter provides customers the Internet infrastructure necessary to manage online enterprises that are highly available, flexible and scalable. GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Inc. (ZD) is an American magazine publisher and Internet Information company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, , MP3.com and eToys. Global Crossing, GlobalCenter's parent company, is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network with 97,200 announced 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, 24 countries and more than 200 major cities. For more information, contact GlobalCenter at www.globalcenter.net or Global Crossing at www.globalcrossing.com. Statements made in this press release that state Global Crossing's, its subsidiaries' or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause Global Crossing's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the ability to complete systems within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving and price competitive marketplace; changes in the nature of telecommunications regulation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries; changes in business strategy; the successful integration of newly-acquired businesses; the impact of technological change; and other risks referenced from time to time in the Global Crossing's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Loudcloud, Cloud, Smart Cloud and Opsware are service marks and trademarks of Loudcloud. All other trademarks appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. The GlobalCenter service mark and logo are service marks or registered service marks of GlobalCenter Inc. |
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