Hosted Solutions Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Nando Media - The Internet Publishing Arm of the McClatchy Company.
New account to generate $300K in revenue
Cary, NC - April 2, 2003 - Hosted Solutions, the Triangle's leading Data Center and Web hosting company, signed a multi-year contract with Nando Media, the interactive media division of The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), one of the nation's top ten newspaper companies.
The McClatchy Company publishes 11 daily and 13 community newspapers, including the Raleigh based News & Observer. Nando Media, formerly Nando.net, was re-focused to serve as a central interactive operational hub for The McClatchy Company when it purchased the News & Observer Publishing Company in 1995.
Nando Media provides complete Internet publishing solutions and support for over fifty newspapers publishers, including, but not limited to, The McClatchy newspaper Web sites. With one hosting location currently in production in Sacramento, CA., the addition of Hosted Solutions on the East Coast was critical to providing stable, redundant hosting to Nando's digital publishing customers.
Under terms of the new agreement, Hosted Solutions will provide Nando Media with a secure caged area with room for over 100 servers and bandwidth of 30mbps. From a financial perspective, Hosted Solutions' s outsourced solution will save Nando Media over $100,000 per year versus the alternative of building their own data center.
“This is a significant win for us on several levels”, said Rich Lee, CEO of Hosted Solutions. “Nando Media is a recognized market leader in the web publishing space with a customer base that's generating over 7.5 million page views a day. Moreover, we were the clear winner after they conducted a rigorous review process of competitive facilities and financial statements. This win affirms our belief that profitable companies with sound business models are being rewarded. Our competitors will continue to get penalized for their “build it and they will come” strategy, which we all know doesn't work in today's economic climate.”
According to James Calloway, Business Development Manager of Nando Media, “Choosing the right local web hosting partner was a critical business decision for us. We evaluated each potential partner's experience, technology, infrastructure, financial position, and perceived understanding of our business. At the end of the day, the fact that Hosted Solutions was profitable and had a more mature product offering was the deal closer over the other local providers.”
Hosted Solutions provides mission-critical infrastructure to over 190 Internet enabled companies, including fully-managed servers, enterprise backup, managed firewall and intrusion detection security protection and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of e-commerce infrastructure.
About Nando Media
A pioneer in Web publishing, Nando Media brings efficiency to online publishing with tools and services to help businesses succeed on the Web.
Nando Media launched one of the first electronic news sites on the Web, The Nando Times, in the spring of 1994. As a result of Nando's experience and depth of news content, Nando Media evolved as a resource for other Web publishers.
From its Digital Workbench publishing solutions to user registration, Nando leverages its years of publishing experience, extensive partnerships and technical expertise to meet customers' ongoing needs for Web development.
Nando Media is the interactive media division of The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), one of the nation's top ten newspaper companies, and currently provides solutions for over fifty newspapers.
About Hosted Solutions
With over 180 local clients, Hosted Solutions is the Triangle's leading Data Center and managed Web hosting provider for customers with high-end initiatives requiring complete design and management of their IT systems.
Hosted Solutions customers are fully supported with a state-of-the-art Data Center, the largest network in the Carolinas, and Dual OC3 Internet connections. And as the only locally owned (Cary, NC headquarters) and managed facility, Hosted Solutions's management team guarantees responsive, proactive 24/7 customer support and a competitive pricing structure that is based on a profitable, debt free operating position.
Hosted Solutions's full suite of solutions range from fully-managed servers, enterprise backup, managed firewall and intrusion detection security protection, load balancing, high availability clustering and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of e-commerce infrastructure.
For more information about Hosted Solutions's managed hosting and infrastructure outsourcing services, please contact Rich Lee, CEO (919- 852-0690, ext 3031, rlee@hostedsolutions.com) or Chris Hanks, President (919- 852-0690, ext 3025 or chanks@hostedsolutions.com) or visit www.hostedsolutions.com
