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March 26, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT service provider IBM (IBM.com) announced on Tuesday that it has added a new on-demand service offering to its portfolio of services designed for medium-sized business customers with a new infrastructure offering called IBM Services Anywhere Select.
The service, says IBM, allows the company to remotely manage a customer's Web infrastructure and systems. The service allows customers to have IBM manage a range of infrastructure components, including storage, application support and security.
IBM says it understands the unique technology needs of medium-sized business customers, and has committed to designing products and services specifically for these customers. The company previously launched a line of software products, including WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and DB2, under the Express brand for medium-sized business customers. IBM has also launched several dozen eServers designed for the market, including a revamped iSeries eServer and numerous xSeries eServers.
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This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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