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August 16, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — XO Communications, Inc. (xo.com), one of the world’s fastest growing providers of broadband communications services, yesterday announced the launch its comprehensive Windows 2000 hosting portfolio.
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XO has deployed Windows 2000 across its shared and managed hosting platform
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to create an operating system environment designed for high availability,
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performance and security. XO now offers an extensive array of hosting
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services based on Windows 2000, providing scalable solutions for small- and
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medium-sized businesses to larger enterprises and Internet-centric
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companies.
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XO says it can deliver these benefits to a wide range of customers for
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services ranging from shared hosting service, that allows multiple customers
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to use a cluster of servers for superior uptime and reliability, up to a
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managed hosting service for customers that require their own servers and
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high-performance application hosting and transaction processing
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capabilities.
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“Microsoft has worked closely with XO to successfully implement a Windows
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2000 solution across their extensive hosting portfolio,” said Pieter Knook,
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vice president, network service providers group, Microsoft Corp. “XO’s
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ability to offer Windows 2000 as a shared or managed service ensures a
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solution that can scale with the growing needs of their business customers.”
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Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000, XO is able to offer a high level of
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service delivery through scalable automation, provisioning and maintenance
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processes. As part of the deployment of Microsoft Windows 2000, XO has
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developed a network-based provisioning capability that enables real-time
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upgrades and security enhancements.
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This capability enables XO to continually offer the most advanced hosting
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services. Windows 2000 also allows XO to offer shorter provisioning cycles,
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increased security and scalability, advanced load balancing and the ability
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to develop applications capable of sharing data across today’s heterogeneous
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computing environments.
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XO’s Load Balanced Advanced Server delivers a high degree of resiliency and
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reliability for mission-critical applications and transactions. The higher
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server availability rates made possible with the deployment of Windows 2000
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Advanced Server enables XO to offer one of the industry’s best service level
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agreements of up to 99.97 percent availability.
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Load balancing technologies allow for multiple servers to handle the load of
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a single application for greater redundancy benefits. This architecture has
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been a leading benefit of the XO shared hosting platform, and is an
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integrated component of the managed hosting service using the Windows 2000
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Advanced Server.
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For managed hosting customers with database applications, XO also offers
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Database Administration (DBA) Service that includes installation,
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administration, proactive monitoring, management, data recovery and repair.
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The DBA service monitors an end user’s infrastructure, the underlying
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database and operating system 24 hours a day.
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The DBA architecture proactively keeps the customer’s database running at
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peak efficiency at a price point significantly lower than the cost of an
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internally supported database. XO also provides a monthly “Database Health
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and Capacity Report” which includes database health trend analysis, database
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change reporting and server performance metrics.
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In the United States, XO hosting services are deployed and managed from five
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XO data centers including Irvine, San Jose, Chicago and Secaucus, New Jersey
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and the latest of which was recently opened in Fremont, California.
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All XO data centers are connected to the company’s broadband network
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backbone, which provides for faster content delivery (low latency) and
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increased reliability (high throughput) of customer traffic. XO is a
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facilities-based, Tier One service provider with over 10Gbps of provisioned
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capacity to over 200 public and private peering partners.
