ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. Selects Cervalis to Provide Managed Hosting of Its Mission-Critical Internet Operations.Business/Technology Editors STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2001- Cervalis Provides IT Expertise and High-Touch Service Approach Through Advanced Data Center Facilities -- Cervalis, a next-generation provider of IT outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. and managed hosting services, today announced that ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. (TDMI TDMI Transportation Demand Management Institute TDMI TD Securities Melbourne Institute TDMI Thumb Instruction, Debugger, Multiplier, ICE (ARM CPU features) TDMI Terence Detlef Max International ) chose to outsource its mission-critical online list service, www.ThinkDirectMail.com, to Cervalis. TDMI is a designer, developer and distributor of products and services that automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. and streamline direct marketing and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) processes. ThinkDirectMail.com is the organization's online initiative that provides affordable direct marketing solutions to customers. Due to the rapid growth of its IT infrastructure and online capabilities, TDMI selected Cervalis to provide the highest levels of availability, security and performance for its Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the operations, including infrastructure management, Web site monitoring See Web analytics. and round-the-clock support. "Our customers depend on the availability and security of our ThinkDirectMail.com Web site to conduct their business safely and conveniently," said Jimi Meyer, vice president of technology at ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. "Cervalis allows us to concentrate on developing and delivering our products and services, while ensuring 99.999% uptime and 24 hour-a-day management of our mission-critical e-business applications." "ThinkDirectMail.com delivers essential direct marketing tools, tips, news and educational content to its customers. We are pleased to deliver the 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 the company needs to make its online business scalable and dependable," said Cervalis President and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. Michael Boccardi. "We look forward to providing a standard of care and reliability that will allow ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. to enjoy further growth of its e-business." About ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. ThinkDirectMarketing, Inc. (www.ThinkDirectMarketing.com), designs, develops and distributes online marketing services that automate and streamline direct marketing campaigns. TDMI's goal is to provide small and mid-size businesses with the same direct marketing tools that previously were only available to the Fortune 1000. In addition to the ThinkDirectMail(TM) online list access suite, TDMI also offers the DirectMailQuotes.com(TM) mailing quote services, used by hundreds of marketers each month to specify and receive bids on their direct mail campaigns, the MailMogul(TM) suite of mail shop services and the DigitalData CRM solution that allows the integration of real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. name and address data delivery into applications for Call Center and Point-of-Sale customer identification. ThinkDirectMarketing.com provides a wealth of marketing tools and educational content on its website to assist customers in maximizing their direct marketing efforts. For more information contact TDMI at 877-288-DATA or online at www.ThinkDirectMarketing.com. TDMI headquarters are located at 470 West Avenue, Stamford, CT 06902. About Cervalis Cervalis is a next-generation provider of outsourced IT infrastructure and premier managed hosting services that redefine Verb 1. redefine - give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify - determine the essential quality of 2. the way companies conduct mission-critical business on the Internet. Through its state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant Internet Data Centers, Cervalis offers world-class customer support with the technology needed to scale complex environments reliably and cost effectively. Cervalis' comprehensive approach to Internet and IT outsourcing solutions provides customers with the ultra-secure high-availability and high-performance infrastructure they need to keep critical e-commerce applications up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To learn more about the Cervalis advantage, please visit www.cervalis.com or call toll-free 866-602-2020. |
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