Univision Selects Loudcloud to Outsource Web Operations

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July 25, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Loudcloud Inc. (loudcloud.com), a leading managed services provider, today announced that Univision (univision.com), the largest Internet destination for the Spanish speaking community in the United States, has outsourced its Internet operations to Loudcloud.
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Univision.com will now be deployed, scaled, managed and monitored using the
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Loudcloud service, and its Opsware automation technology.
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Univision.com provides the Spanish speaking community with the up-to-date
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news and proprietary content from the Univision television properties.
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Univision.com experiences large spikes in traffic, driven by major news and
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television events. To more effectively handle the traffic load and
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e-commerce capabilities, Univision.com selected Loudcloud to provide and
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manage the supporting Web site infrastructure. Loudcloud’s services will
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support Univision.com’s ability to scale on demand, as well as to provide
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users with a secure, reliable site from which they can purchase.
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“Our readers count on Univision.com as a one-stop shop for reliable and
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consistent news, information and commerce,” said Javier Saralegui, Univision
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Online’s president & COO. Loudcloud’s technical expertise and Opsware
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technology allow us to provide a consistently high-quality experience to our
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users, whether they are reading the latest news, viewing content from
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television shows, or making purchases on the site.”
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Loudcloud’s Opsware automation technology provides the foundation for
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Loudcloud’s managed Internet infrastructure services. Opsware captures and
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manages the numerous pieces of information, decisions and processes required
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to deploy, manage and grow an Internet infrastructure.
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“Our services offering, based on Opsware technology’s capabilities, fills
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Univision’s need to scale their Web site as news and sales dictates, without
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managing the dramatic and inefficient expense of purchasing and running the
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site’s underlying infrastructure themselves,” said Ben Horowitz, CEO and
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co-founder of Loudcloud.

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