ASHBURN,
Va., June 29, 2004 - MCI (MCIA.PK) today announced it is expanding its
Global Hosting portfolio by leveraging its Digex capabilities to help
businesses drive greater efficiencies, improve network and server performance
and enhance productivity. With new services like MCI's Enhanced Monitoring
for Colocation, the company is extending its core competency from the
network layer to the application layer to offer customers more complete,
next-generation communication solutions.
"MCI
is combining its advanced networking and computing capabilities to provide
businesses with the next wave of value-added services to help streamline
and enhance their day-to-day business operations," said Nancy Gofus,
MCI senior vice president of Product Management. "Through the integration
of Digex and MCI capabilities, customers can now more simply and securely
set-up online commerce sites, perfect enterprise portals, drive business
automation and strengthen business continuity efforts."
MCI's new
Enhanced Monitoring Service for Colocation will provide MCI's Premium
Data Center customers with increased visibility into the health of their
servers. By extending the Digex monitoring infrastructure into its Premium
Data Centers, MCI can help customers gather important information about
their systems, including CPU and disk space utilization, all from a remote
desktop. With reports available through its Client Central Web portal,
MCI customers can use the collected data for trending and strategic planning
purposes. Customers can also customize the service to send alerts when
specific monitoring thresholds have been exceeded.
MCI's comprehensive
new suite of services is suitable for small to large businesses. Each
set of hosting services is designed to give customers the level of control
they desire-whether it's fully outsourced or self-managed-while delivering
unparalleled IP expertise and performance, and direct connections to MCI's
global IP network. In addition, MCI's managed services unit MCI Solutions
can provide tailored hosting and application management solutions to meet
the individual requirements of businesses. MCI's new portfolio consists
of three tiers of services, including:
Enterprise
Hosting, a Digex Service, enables businesses to outsource the management
of their Internet infrastructure and applications to MCI and are ideal
for companies that want to offload hardware maintenance and repairs, 24/7
monitoring, patch management and application support. With its wide range
of Smart Services and Application Management offerings, MCI can help companies
outsource critical system management tasks so they can focus their resources
on core business needs. In addition, MCI's Hosting Professional Services
and Client Support representatives can provide specialized technical assistance
including consulting and project management services.
Data Center
Services offerings are ideal for the colocation of Internet servers, data
networking or voice equipment in a secure, flexible and carrier-grade
environment. MCI also provides a la carte managed services including Load
Balancing, Back Up and Restore, Managed Firewall, and Virtual Private
Networking services.
Hosted Services
offer a broad range of shared, dedicated and on-demand hosted solutions
to allow customers to outsource specific Internet applications and offload
the inherent complexities in managing them to MCI's expert hosting team.
For example, MCI's Managed Messaging for Microsoft Exchange enables businesses
to outsource their corporate messaging service at a flat rate per user,
per month. Offering ease and convenience, IT managers can simply add,
delete and administer messaging users through an online portal without
the need for applications expertise.
MCI will
infuse its new capabilities into building next-generation offerings that
leverage the company's expansive data center and global IP network footprint.
Examples of this include MCI's fully-managed On-Demand Application Service,
which was launched earlier this month. Also in development for release
later this year are disk-to-disk back-up and restore services, utility
storage offerings and a bi-directional ticketing service.
"As
the industry moves to an on-demand or consumption-based model, MCI is
ideally positioned to lead this market," added Gofus. "With
our ability to transparently bring together our IP infrastructure and
the know-how to deliver innovative, IP-based services, MCI is helping
businesses achieve IP transformation at their own pace."
About MCI
MCI, Inc., (MCIA.PK), is a leading global communications provider, delivering
innovative, cost-effective, advanced communications connectivity to businesses,
governments and consumers. With the industry's most expansive global IP
backbone, based on the number of company-owned points of presence, and
wholly-owned data networks, MCI develops the converged communications
products and services that are the foundation for commerce and communications
in today's market. For more information, go to www.mci.com.
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