McClatchy Interactive Awards Second Multi-Year Colocation Contract to Hosted Solutions
Companies extend partnership to deliver breaking news 24/7 in the digital age
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Cary, North Carolina - March 14, 2006 - Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas' premier data center and web hosting company, today announced that McClatchy Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of the McClatchy Company, has awarded the company its second multi-year colocation contract.
McClatchy Interactive provides both content and business support for interactive media nationwide, including the McClatchy Company's 12 daily and 17 community newspapers. McClatchy papers such as the News & Observer, Sacremento Bee and Minneapolis Star Tribune are read by millions of subscribers each day and operate leading news Web sites and portals across North America. Hosted Solutions will provide colocation services, high-availability bandwidth (200 MBPS), 14 cabinets of equipment and 24/7 advanced monitoring services out of their Raleigh data center for all of McClatchy's newspapers as well as other McClatchy Interactive clients.
“Subscribers rely on our Web sites and portals to deliver up-to-the-minute, breaking news and information,” said Mike Dickerson, Technology Manager for McClatchy Interactive. “Over the last two years we have come to rely on Hosted Solutions as our partner for ensuring this delivery is not interrupted. Expanding our relationship was absolutely the best decision. We look forward to working with the Hosted Solutions team for many more years to come.” This announcement comes shortly after The McClatchy Company released plans to purchase Knight Ridder Inc., the publisher of 32 newspapers including the Charlotte Observer.
“We take great pride in our company every time a client decides to renew or expand upon their relationship with us,” said Hosted Solutions CEO, Rich Lee. “This is certainly no exception. We truly respect McClatchy's 147-year heritage in the news business and are excited to be contributing to the company's future.” Hosted Solutions' full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and Management of e-commerce infrastructures.
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