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June 14, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Communications solutions provider VSNL International (vsnl.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched global managed hosting and storage services for enterprises seeking to enhance efficiencies, reduce ownership costs, improve service quality and ensure business continuity in their IT infrastructure environments.
VSNL says its managed hosting solution offers enterprises the ability to outsource systems and applications to a VSNL global data center, optimizing resources, reducing costs and guaranteeing the availability and security of data. It combines data center facilities, VSNL's global network, security and server systems and LAN infrastructure. The service also supports a complete suite of operating systems environments including Windows, Solaris and Linux, says the company.
The managed storage solution offers a subscription-based utility model, enabling enterprises to cost effectively and reliably store mission critical data with the benefits of a redundant, state of the art fiber channel storage area network and protection against technology upgrades, says the company.
"Our global customers can use VSNL's best-of-breed managed hosting and storage solution to safely out task services and to reduce IT management complexity," says Vinod Kumar, president of global data solutions, VSNL. "This cost effective, highly resilient managed IT infrastructure service is powered by VSNL's globally consistent and centralized management platform, technical expertise and industry best practices. The combination of our IT infrastructure solutions with our global network capabilities enables customers with a complete end-to-end solution."
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