Increased demand for hosting at Internet Solutions due to load-shedding

Issued by Stone Soup for Internet Solutions

Johannesburg, 05 Feb 2008

Internet Solutions (IS), the country's leading independent ISP, is gearing up for the steady increase in demand for hosting facilities from both existing and new customers.

Greg Montjoie, Hosting Business Unit Manager, says IS installed more hosting space in 2007 than in the previous 10 years in existence.

"With the Eskom load-shedding impacting our customers' own in-house facilities, our data centre space is being consumed at an unprecedented rate, as people look for stable, clean power," he said. "To facilitate this demand, our operations teams have been working round the clock to get the IS data centres expanded and built to complete installations as fast as possible."

The current Bryanston facility is being upgraded, and visitors will have seen the new power centre being built on the eastern side of The Campus. The Bryanston data centre is being expanded to give additional floor space - all of which is scheduled to be completed by the first week of February.

"These expansions have been absolutely necessary," says Montjoie. "Our installs teams are also gearing up for the increase in new installations, once the new power plant is operational. We have planned for this and intend to minimise installation time as we have pre-prepped servers ready and waiting."

Montjoie added that the Rosebank data centre has also been included in the expansion plans. "We have purchased the Parklands building next door to the current facility and will have additional space available in the first week in March. Other plans are in place to expand Rosebank even further in the near future as those customers expand and upgrade."

Internet Solutions

Internet Solutions (IS) is Africa's leading new age telco, offering end-to-end converged communication solutions to its clients. The people at IS are passionate about constantly innovating and delivering solutions and services that are relevant and critical to their customers. These services are built on a world-class, secure, resilient infrastructure, delivered according to global best practices and effected in partnership with the world's leading technology vendors. It is through these services and solutions that IS creates a competitive edge for its customers' communication needs, and promote sustainable business growth.

The business was founded in 1992 on the principle of developing a robust infrastructure in order for corporates and other organisations to communicate. Since then, IS has established itself as a leader in this space, attracting over 80% of South Africa's top businesses as clients. From listed companies to non governmental organisations, local and national government and smaller companies, IS is enabling and evolving communications to meet the business needs of thousands of customers.

The company enjoys partnerships with major global players such as Cisco and Microsoft and holds Microsoft Gold Certification in the Hosting specialisation for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (Hosted Exchange and SharePoint) and Managed Hosting Solutions - the first South African company to achieve this accreditation and was the first company outside of the US to be certified as a Cisco Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP).

Today the company enjoys a leadership position as it delivers services, including: Hosting, access, security solutions, virtual private network (VPN), mobile solutions, VOIS, African solutions, broadband, and application services (ASP). Recent growth in the African economy has resulted in IS spreading its services across all parts of the continent as clients demand reliable and robust networking connectivity in the African market.

For more, visit us on www.is.co.za.

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