Speedera Hits the Beach as Entire Company Rewarded With Hawaii Trip; East Meets West Halfway -- in Hawaii -- as Speedera's Team India and Its Team USA Gather for Celebration and Bonding.BANGALORE, India & 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. -- Speedera Networks Inc., a leading global provider of on-demand distributed hosting and content delivery services See CDN. , today reported that as a reward for exceeding its business goals and as a means of more tightly linking its global team Speedera would be flying its entire worldwide staff and their families to a well-earned four day stay at a Hawaiian resort destination. The bulk of the employees will travel during May, while operations and support staff will travel on a staggered schedule. Speedera's team members are highly distributed, as the company operates with dual headquarters with virtually all corporate functions being mirrored in both Silicon Valley and in Bangalore, India. "This trip makes good on a promise I made to our employees that if we pulled together to achieve our business targets, then we'd all be on a beach in May," said Ajit Gupta, president, 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 founder of Speedera Networks. "We well exceeded our targets, and so our entire workforce from 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 India will come together for a few days in Hawaii. It's an opportunity for both teams to bond more tightly and to celebrate in the true spirit of a global company, which we believe will in the long run make us an even more cohesive and productive company." In the last 12 months, Speedera's workforce has more than doubled, including strong growth in the company's Speedera India subsidiary, which officially launched last September. Speedera's India operations include a full range of corporate functions: sales, marketing, finance, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , technical support, and research and development. Gupta said the company's continuing rapid growth has been fueled by an expanding market, organic growth from existing customers, the addition of new customers to its roster, and relationships with channel partners that are now bearing fruit. Some new customers in recent months include the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper , Fredericks of Hollywood, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), multinational organization (est. 1960, formally constituted 1961) that coordinates petroleum policies and economic aid among oil-producing nations. (OPEC OPEC: see Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC in full Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Multinational organization established in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum production and export policies of its ), China National TV, Progressive Casualty Insurance and many others. The company has greatly expanded its global market reach, and so far this year has inked international deals with new clients in Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, and Sweden. This will be the second time that the company has paid for a trip for employees to a tropical destination: in 2003, Speedera flew its employees to Maui to celebrate the company achieving profitability in 2002. About Speedera Networks Speedera Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services. The company's SpeedSuite family of on-demand services cost-effectively solves the performance, scalability, availability and security problems of distributed applications and Web sites. Speedera's edge delivery network is deployed in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Customers include leading organizations such as American Eagle Outfitters, Circuit City, DoubleClick, Fox Broadcasting, Macromedia, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , and Univision. Channel partners include Softbank Broadmedia/Club iT, AboveNet, VSNL VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (India) , HP and SunGard. For more information, please call +1 408-970-1528, visit www.speedera.com or email info@speedera.com. To request a white paper, see http://www.speedera.com/reqtechpaper.htm. To request a demo, see http://www.speedera.com/reqdemo.htm. |
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