August 15, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed service provider Sprint (sprint.com) announced on Thursday that data quality service provider Cicada (cicadacorp.com) has chosen to host its application services with Sprint.
Sprint says identical systems will be installed in E|Solutions centers in New York City and Reston, Virginia to provide Cicada with a redundant application platform and the disaster recovery capability critical in serving its financial services clients.
Through its managed hosting service, says Sprint, the company will acquire, install and manage Cicada?s servers, firewalls, IP VPN appliances, routers database software, private line and Internet transport services. Sprint says Cicada will install its Cicada Composer data management and distribution technology into Sprint?s platform to run the application service for its customers.
