October 5, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cable & Wireless (cw.com), a global telecommunicationscompany, announced yesterday that Digital Island (digitalisland.net), itsrecently acquired subsidiary specialising in managed hosting and contentdelivery, will spearhead the group’s Web services capabilities. DigitalIsland also announced the launch of its new leading edge customer offering,2Way Web Services, with three major international customers already signedup.
Digital Island’s offering enables enterprises to transact, deliver andmanage e-business content to reduce operating costs and increase revenues,while ensuring high quality service for end users. It will leverage thestrength and scope of Cable & Wireless’ global IP backbone and hostingfacilities to offer an enhanced portfolio of Web infrastructure services.
Customers can now go to a financially strong, end-to-end e-businessinfrastructure provider for connectivity, both inside their organisation andwith external parties, as well as managed hosting and content deliveryservices. This enables them to reduce the complexity of theirinfrastructure, the time required to manage it and, ultimately, the totalcost of owning it.
2Way Web Services enables businesses to progress from using the Web simplyfor distributing information to being able to interact with customers andsuppliers and conduct electronic trading in a fast, reliable and secureenvironment, on a global basis. Using 2Way Web Services, businesses cancomplete more transactions at a lower cost per transaction – therebyincreasing the profitability and performance of their online operationswhile simultaneously decreasing the cost.
Recent GIGA research found that Global 500 companies outsourcing withDigital Island’s 2Way Web Services achieved an estimated 28 per cent costreduction in implementation, deployment and maintenance of hosting andcontent services and experienced a payback period averaging three months -four times faster than competing solutions that use content delivery withoutintegrated hosting.
Also announced by Digital Island today are three new customers: CiscoNetworking Academy, Walt Disney Internet Group and Pearson. The CiscoNetwork Academy Program is using Digital Island’s 2Way Web Services to helpreduce the costs of delivering education and IT training to some 200,000students worldwide. Walt Disney Internet Group is using 2Way Web Servicesto handle flash crowds at Web sites such as ESPN.com. Digital Island hasbeen appointed Web Services partner for the following Pearson companies; FTGroup, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group.
Graham Wallace, chief executive, Cable & Wireless, said: “Our corporatecustomers want our services to deliver higher revenues and lower costs forthem. The powerful combination of Cable & Wireless and Digital Island isnow demonstrating that we can deliver what our customers want.”
The complete 2Way Web Services platform is immediately available andcomprises three core service offerings; 2Transact, 2Deliver, 2Manage fordelivering secure transactions, transmitting and receiving large files,managing assets, tracking digital rights and customising end-userexperience, supported by service level agreements. The services are modularand can be assembled to meet individual enterprises’ needs.
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