mShopper Selects Hosted Solutions for Managed Hosting
Hosted Solutions announces that mShopper is relocating its core infrastructure in their world class Boston Data Center facility.
Boston, MA & Boulder, CO - 1/8/08 - Hosted Solutions, the East Coast's premier data center and managed services provider announces today that today that mShopper, the leader in mobile shopping, has selected Hosted Solutions to provide its managed hosting needs for the next three years. The Boulder, CO-based corporation determined the need for securing a partner who could deliver a fully managed enterprise infrastructure and 100% network uptime to support their hosted applications. The decision utilizes Hosted Solutions secure network to provide reliability, security, and availability to mShopper's technology hardware and applications.
mShopper is receiving Hi-Touch dedicated servers, managed firewall, SPLA licensing, OS management, managed backups, and network connectivity, which are monitored and maintained by Hosted Solutions at its Boston Data Center facility. In providing all of the services, mShopper is entrusting Hosted Solutions to manage their entire application infrastructure.
"We primarily chose to work with Hosted Solutions because of its highly regarded reputation of security and reliability within the industry. In delivering a product or service in a hosted model, guaranteed availability and support for our environment is critical to our success," said Alec Karys, Chief Technology Officer, mShopper. "By utilizing Hosted Solutions’ tailored enterprise managed hosting solution, our technical team has the flexible platform necessary to deliver our cutting edge application, without the hassles of everyday IT functions. Hosted Solutions truly is a partner with our long term success in mind."
"mShopper’s unique and innovative on demand application can fundamentally change the way the general public makes critical purchases," said Gary McAuliffe, Vice President of Business Development and General Manager for Hosted Solutions Boston Data Center. "As their business continues to grow and adapt, they need IT systems and operations that are as visionary as their company. mShopper recognizes that Hosted Solutions can provide them with a superior managed solution that will support both their current business objectives and future growth. This is a great example of how Hosted Solutions’ experience at providing highly-available and cost-effective IT solutions for business applications and technology investments can allow our clients to remain focused on their core competencies."
About mShopper:
mShopper is a mobile commerce infrastructure provider which enables shoppers to find, save, share and buy more than 10 million products via the mobile web. The Company partners with leading mobile carriers and online merchants to deliver a complete end-to-end shopping experience for users. The mShopper shopping application is available on your phone’s Web browser at http://shop.mshopper.com. For more information visit www.mshopper.com.
About Hosted Solutions:
Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting solutions maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical, back-office IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates four SAS 70 Type II audited Data Centers in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. For more information please visit www.hostedsolutions.com.
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