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VANCOUVER, BC — PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX-V: PIX), a leading provider of IT infrastructure, today announced that the company has deployed EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms across all of its managed dedicated hosting data center operations in Atlanta, Miami, and Fremont, California (Silicon Valley). The EMC platform provides state-of-the-art technology to optimize PEER 1’s data backup solution, providing managed dedicated hosting customers with faster and more reliable backup and data recovery.
“We continuously look to provide our customers with best-of-breed IT infrastructure services,” said Ted Smith, vice president of Operations for PEER 1. “We’ve rolled out a successful deployment of the EMC platform to all of our dedicated hosting operations and are pleased to bring the improved speed and reliability to our customers. We feel our solution is second to none in the managed dedicated hosting space.”
The data backup service from PEER 1 provides customers with either daily or weekly backup options of local server storage to the EMC Storage Area Network in a highly secure area of the PEER 1 data centers. PEER 1’s backup and data recovery solutions are fully managed by internal PEER 1 data backup experts and support professionals.
In addition to backup services, the EMC storage solution allows PEER 1 to offer highly available mass storage options to customers over 4Gbit Fiber Channel connections. This external storage will provide additional scaling options to PEER 1 customers that have traditionally been limited to local server storage.
PEER 1
is a leading IT infrastructure provider to startups and SMEs, delivering highly
scalable hosting solutions to allow customers to focus on the possibilities of
the Internet, not the problems. PEER 1 provides managed, self-managed, and co-location
hosting services through 15 state-of-the-art data centers across North America. The company has over 9,000 customers
worldwide in wide- ranging areas from retail and manufacturing to Web 2.0 and
Software as a Service (SaaS).
About
PEER 1
PEER 1 is a
leading IT infrastructure provider delivering highly scalable dedicated hosting
and co-location solutions to ensure a client’s online presence is fast
performing and available 100% of the time. Since its inception in 1999, the
company has grown to include data centers and network points of presence in 17
major cities across North America and Europe,
all connected by PEER 1’s world class Internet network. PEER 1 serves a
variety of startups and SMEs including software as a service (SaaS), web 2.0, hosting
providers, online gaming providers, Internet phone (VoIP) companies, and outsourced enterprise solutions
organizations. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada
and the stock is traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol PIX. For
more information visit: http://www.peer1.com.


