SiteSmith Announces Suite of Internet Site Infrastructure Management Tools.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000 Auditing, Monitoring, Network Redundancy and Security Are the First Premium Services Available to SiteSmith Customers SiteSmith, Inc., a leading provider of Internet infrastructure management services, today announced availability of a suite of premium services that automate architecting, creation and management of Internet site infrastructures. SiteSmith Premium Services are designed to ensure that the important issues of capacity, security, availability and reliability are proactively identified and remedied before they can affect the performance of a customer's site. The first available services are SiteAudit, SiteMonitoring, SiteNet (formerly known as CYAN) and SiteSecurity. SiteSmith Premium Services feature comprehensive protection for all key site operating parameters, ranging from individual components to network level to carrier level site traffic. In addition to best-of-breed technologies, SiteSmith maintains a physical presence near its clients' data centers providing customers with rapid, hands-on response to site operation issues. Now companies can benefit from granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. and top level visibility in every aspect of site health, which results in early failure detection, predictive needs assessment and reliable, responsive operations. "An Internet site is a complex interaction of different components - networks, servers, databases, storage services, routers and load balancers - so as the site grows and traffic increases, so does the risk of failure," said Mark Spagnolo, 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. and chairman of SiteSmith. "Proactively identifying and resolving issues before they affect site performance is key to SiteSmith Premium Services." SiteSmith Premium Services supplement the company's core Internet infrastructure management services. The first new services available to customers include: -- SiteAudit: Detailed analysis of a customer's current site operations, identifying changes needed to improve site performance and reliability. Physical configuration and conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and to best practices are the first available components. In the future, SiteAudit will include security and performance evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return . -- SiteMonitoring: Internal monitoring of site hardware, databases and applications. Subscribers to this service receive enhanced analyses that address trends and analyze site performance. SiteMonitoring can help clients better predict site infrastructure needs to support growth and spikes in user activity. -- SiteNet (formerly CYAN): Bandwidth and hosting failover Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to respond immediately if the primary system becomes unusable. Also called "fallover." See replication. service that connects SiteSmith customers to multiple independent hosting and bandwidth providers. SiteNet is a network redundancy service that reduces exposure to individual network failures. By using multiple network providers, e-businesses can avoid network degradations or outages caused by the failure of a local data center's network connection. -- SiteSecurity: Internet site security service that is tailored to each customer's self-defined security policy. Currently, SiteSecurity includes firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to protect access to the site and the integrity of site data and applications. In the future, SiteSecurity will include intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. and security audit. Availability and Pricing SiteAudit, SiteMonitoring and SiteSecurity services are available in the U.S. today, and SiteNet will be available starting mid-September 2000. Pricing is based on capacity and size of installation of site infrastructure. For more information on availability and pricing please contact SiteSmith at 888/424-0059 or 408/987-6400. About SiteSmith SiteSmith, Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive, cutting-edge Internet infrastructure management services. SiteSmith services are designed to maximize the performance, reliability and security of large-scale, complex Internet sites. Since its inception in October 1999, SiteSmith has assembled a leading team of Web engineers, Internet technologists and project managers to help companies build and operate reliable, scalable and secure Internet sites. SiteSmith is dedicated to helping e-businesses deliver the performance and consistent services that customers, investors and partners demand -- twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. SiteSmith is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. with offices in Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Newark and the Washington D.C. area. Information about SiteSmith and its services is available on the World Wide Web at www.sitesmith.com or by calling 888/424-0059 or 408/987-6400. Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : SiteSmith, SiteAudit, SiteMonitoring, SiteNet and SiteSecurity are service marks of SiteSmith, Inc. |
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