Loudcloud's Infrastructure Services Selected By Work.com; New Joint Venture Joins Eazel, HopeLink, Juniper Bank and UPromise for Loudcloud's Infrastructure Expertise.Business Editors/High-Tech WritersSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Loudcloud, Inc., a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that Work.com, a new joint venture between Excite@Home and Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance , has selected Loudcloud to provide the Internet infrastructure services that act as the foundation for the new online business network's personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. service debuting today. Work.com selected Loudcloud so it could focus on building the company and getting to market quickly on a platform that was reliable and scalable. By turning over the deployment and management of the infrastructure to Loudcloud, Work.com engineers focused on developing an online network that allows business people to stay current with customized news, identify strategic partners and service vendors and find solutions to their critical business challenges. As a result of partnering with Loudcloud, Work.com was able to go from an inception to launch in 90 days. "For Work.com to have the trust of its customers, it has to be up and running all the time - period," said Don Hutchison Donald Oliver Hutchison (born 9 May 1971 in Gateshead, UK) is a football player. He plays in either midfield or attacking positions. He currently plays for Luton Town. He has earned 26 caps for the Scottish national team. , 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. , Work.com. "People depend on us to be their definitive source of information and applications, so we have to have a rock solid foundation. The commitment of quality that Loudcloud's service level agreement represents, and the fact that we can leverage Loudcloud's vast technical knowledge are key reasons Work.com chose Loudcloud." "Our sole focus is to provide our customers with world-class Internet infrastructure technology and services," said Ben Horowitz, CEO of Loudcloud. "That enables our customers to develop leading, cutting-edge products and services. We are thrilled to be working with Work.com and enabling them to focus on building their innovative online business network." In addition to Work.com, Loudcloud also announced that Eazel, HopeLink, Juniper juniper, any tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus, aromatic evergreens of the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), widely distributed over the north temperate zone. Many are valuable as a source of lumber and oil. Bank and UPromise have also teamed with Loudcloud to leverage its expertise in deploying, managing and monitoring highly scaleable infrastructure products that makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces the backbone of a company's Internet efforts. Fortune 500, Application Service Providers, and high-growth Internet businesses depend on Loudcloud's Smart Cloud(tm) services and its proprietary Opsware(tm) automation technology to provide a comprehensive outsourced Internet infrastructure service that provide a 100% scheduled uptime guarantee of their Internet presence. David Tapper, Senior Analyst at International Data Corp., believes that companies that are trying to leverage the Internet in order to maintain competitive advantage and focus on core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
About Loudcloud Loudcloud, Inc. was formed in September 1999 to build and run best-of-breed infrastructure services designed for high-growth Internet businesses, ASPs, and Fortune 500 companies. Founded by some of the Internet's most respected leaders, including Netscape co-founder 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. and former Netscape/AOL 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, Loudcloud provides Smart Cloud services which encompass the complete suite of software, hardware, network and operations infrastructure - including procuring Procuring, in general, is the act of acquiring goods or services, usually by contract. It may refer to:
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