Data393 to Deliver Managed Hosting, IT Infrastructure for International Restaurant Supplier Galasource, Inc.

March 8, 2007; 01:29 AM
Data393, a managed hosting and IT infrastructure provider, announced today an agreement to deliver a full range of managed hosting and IT services to Denver-based Galasource, Inc., an international wholesale equipment and supplies dealer serving the hospitality industry.

Under the agreement, Data393 will provide Galasource with managed Windows and Linux servers which provide central management and high reliability hosting for Galasource’s e-commerce and corporate needs. Galasource’s website, www.galasource.com, is one of the most heavily visited sites in the demanding food service equipment and supply industry.

“We’ve always been reliant on our websites for online sales and order processing, and we recently decided to entrust Data393 to manage our web hosting infrastructure while we focus on supporting our customers in the restaurant and hospitality industry,” said Jamal Pilger, CIO/CTO of Galasource. “Ensuring our websites are always available and performing well for our customers is critical. Data393 provides us with managed dedicated hosting, load balancing and enhanced security products like a virtual private network and SecureData data protection to make certain we are operating securely and effectively at any time during any situation.”

Galasource is taking advantage of Data393’s Virtual Private Network, which encrypts data over a secured channel to prevent outside interception while giving authorized personnel safe access at multiple locations. Data393’s SecureData, a disk-based data protection service, provides Galasource with an ironclad data recovery strategy should there be a catastrophic event. Galasource is also strengthening and increasing the availability to its dedicated hosting environment by using Data393’s Managed Load Balancing, a service that distributes inbound website traffic among multiple servers to mitigate potential bottlenecks and to avoid reduced performance that can cripple e-commerce sites.

“Data393 is pleased to offer a one-stop shop for IT management for Galasource’s burgeoning restaurant supply business while making available the managed hosting solutions that drive e-commerce,” said Erik Porter, Data393’s co-founder and vice president of Sales. “With an investment of more than $30 million into our 24/7-staffed, multi-carrier data center, we are supporting Galasource with managed dedicated servers, load balancing and application management solutions that provide a resilient framework for the company’s critical e-commerce websites.”

About Data393

Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed infrastructure services with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 offers a fully-managed hosting solution featuring Intel Xeon processors, Windows or Linux operating systems, and 24/7 support from an SAS 70 certified data center. Visit http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.

About Galasource

Headquartered in Denver, Galasource is an international equipment and supplies dealer serving the hospitality industry. As the largest restaurant equipment dealer in Colorado and one of the top three largest online dealers in the United States, Galasource offers more than 260,000 products from over 670 vendors with unmatched in-house product expertise. Galasource provides comprehensive planning, design, purchasing, staging, installation and project management services for restaurants, hotels and nightclubs and offers specialty niche retail items. The company operates five distinct e-commerce properties: www.galasource.com, www.trulythefinest.com, www.gonauticalgifts.com, www.teakalook.com, www.1ofakindbuys.com. Contact 888.521.GALA (4252).