Navisite Announces Strategic Partnership with Akamai to Deploy End-to-End Web Site Services
The NaviSite/Akamai agreement has four distinct elements, including joint network deployment, co-marketing, reselling, and technology exploration and development. NaviSite and Akamai will also integrate their management systems, allowing NaviSite to perform complete problem resolution management for all aspects of the NaviSite Content Distribution service. This means that NaviSite will provide customers with a single point of contact to resolve all issues associated with any Web site it hosts, eliminating the difficulties of dealing with multiple outsourcers. This comprehensive relationship is unique for both parties.
NaviSite, a pioneer in problem resolution management, currently offers high performance Web hosting services and application management using the company's premier transit network for superior Internet connectivity. Customers choosing to take advantage of NaviSite's Content Distribution service can expect to experience highly-optimized performance and a fully resilient service. While NaviSite will continue to host and manage customers' Web site applications, rich and dynamic Internet content will be delivered via Akamai's distributed server network. This powerful combination is optimized to improve the speed and ease of management of sites as well as enhance the cost-to-performance ratio.
As part of the relationship, both companies will work together to explore the delivery of future application services. NaviSite will optimize its infrastructure around the Akamai platform to provide managed applications with the best performance and reliability, and will provide skilled technical expertise to customers that seek to architect their Web sites to take full advantage of Akamai's FreeFlow service. In addition, Akamai and NaviSite will explore ways to deploy and manage applications across both companies' networks and servers. "The strategic relationship between Akamai and NaviSite creates a 'best of both worlds' hybrid that offers economy of scale infrastructure, server and application management with the flexibility of distributed servers," said Peter Kirwan, CTO of NaviSite, Inc. "Our agreement also forms a key element of the foundation for NaviSite's long-term application and content delivery strategy, as we continue to build products that offer customers the best possible performance and reliability."
Pricing and Availability
NaviSite's Content Distribution Services based on Akamai's FreeFlow service will be available December 1, 1999. For more information on pricing and availability, please call (978) 684-3524.
About NaviSite
NaviSite, Inc., a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. with minority investments from Dell Computer Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications.
NaviSite's SiteHarbor® solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications.
For more information about NaviSite please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East coast call 888.298.8222, on the West coast call 888.755.5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 100 Brickstone Square, 5th Floor, Andover, MA 01810.
SiteHarbor is a registered trademark of NaviSite, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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| Brenda Suarez NaviSite, Inc. 978.684.3578 bsuarez@navisite.com |
--or-- | Darby Johnson Beaupre & Co. 603.559.5809 djohnson@beaupre.com |
NaviSite's application services, Web server management and single point of problem resolution complement Akamai's Internet content delivery service to provide higher bandwidth and Web site performance
ANDOVER, MA, November 17, 1999 -- NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:NAVI), a leading ASP and Web hosting supplier today announced that the company has entered a partnership with Akamai Technologies, which operates a global Internet content delivery service that improves the speed and reliability of Web performance. This agreement is a key element of NaviSite's Content Distribution service offering and is designed to provide NaviSite customers with access to an end-to-end content distribution system combined with application and server management services. The enhanced content delivery service, combined with application and server management, will allow Web sites to offer powerful and engaging content -- without the extra expense and headache of building unwanted infrastructure or large technical staffs.The NaviSite/Akamai agreement has four distinct elements, including joint network deployment, co-marketing, reselling, and technology exploration and development. NaviSite and Akamai will also integrate their management systems, allowing NaviSite to perform complete problem resolution management for all aspects of the NaviSite Content Distribution service. This means that NaviSite will provide customers with a single point of contact to resolve all issues associated with any Web site it hosts, eliminating the difficulties of dealing with multiple outsourcers. This comprehensive relationship is unique for both parties.
NaviSite, a pioneer in problem resolution management, currently offers high performance Web hosting services and application management using the company's premier transit network for superior Internet connectivity. Customers choosing to take advantage of NaviSite's Content Distribution service can expect to experience highly-optimized performance and a fully resilient service. While NaviSite will continue to host and manage customers' Web site applications, rich and dynamic Internet content will be delivered via Akamai's distributed server network. This powerful combination is optimized to improve the speed and ease of management of sites as well as enhance the cost-to-performance ratio.
As part of the relationship, both companies will work together to explore the delivery of future application services. NaviSite will optimize its infrastructure around the Akamai platform to provide managed applications with the best performance and reliability, and will provide skilled technical expertise to customers that seek to architect their Web sites to take full advantage of Akamai's FreeFlow service. In addition, Akamai and NaviSite will explore ways to deploy and manage applications across both companies' networks and servers. "The strategic relationship between Akamai and NaviSite creates a 'best of both worlds' hybrid that offers economy of scale infrastructure, server and application management with the flexibility of distributed servers," said Peter Kirwan, CTO of NaviSite, Inc. "Our agreement also forms a key element of the foundation for NaviSite's long-term application and content delivery strategy, as we continue to build products that offer customers the best possible performance and reliability."
Pricing and Availability
NaviSite's Content Distribution Services based on Akamai's FreeFlow service will be available December 1, 1999. For more information on pricing and availability, please call (978) 684-3524.
About NaviSite
NaviSite, Inc., a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. with minority investments from Dell Computer Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications.
NaviSite's SiteHarbor® solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications.
For more information about NaviSite please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East coast call 888.298.8222, on the West coast call 888.755.5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 100 Brickstone Square, 5th Floor, Andover, MA 01810.
SiteHarbor is a registered trademark of NaviSite, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
