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WEBVISIONS ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH AND INTEL TEAM UP TO DELIVER BOOST FAST
AND RELIABLE WEB HOSTING AND E-COMMERCE SERVICES
Singapore, 27 July 2000 - Webvisions Pte Ltd, Singapore's leading web hosting company, announced today that they will partner work with Intel to provide fast and reliable "Powered by Intel" web hosting services for large and high-traffic e-commerce businesses.
Under this joint initiative, Webvisions' Internet Data Center will offer the Intel Netstructure range of products to provide accelerated e-commerce services, load-balancing and Internet traffic management solutions. Since the opening of its Data Center in January this year, the Data Center is already operating at its full capacity.
"As more and more companiesMore businesses are using the Internet for business transactions. We're seeing use the Internet for their business transactions, we are seeing an an exploding demand for high-speed web sites as platforms for e-business applications," said Roger Lim, Chief Executive Officer of Webvisions. "Adding Intel's leading e-commerce technologies further strengthens our ability to provide the highest availability and performance tools to our customers for their mission-critical Internet operations."
The Intel NetStructure technology combines security acceleration and application-aware traffic management to improve the speed of user authentication SSL (Secure Socket Layer) transactions by upto 15,000 percent. It also helps to eliminate user-viewed errors and balance SSL traffic among servers based on specific URLs. On top of that, it boosts the speed of e-commerce traffic by offloading the processing power needed for secure Internet transactions from the server.
"We are keen set to forge synergistic strategic relationships with companies like Webvisions, who share with us the vision of making e-commerce reachable and affordable for all enterprises," said Daniel Louppe spokesperson Director of Marketing, Internet Communications and Data Center Group, job title of Intel. "Given the rapid growth of the Internet economy with fierce competition and vast opportunities, collaboration between Webvisions and Intel around Netstructure (tm) techonologies will accelerate emergence of high bandwith and high reliability services to the ever growing E-business users population in the region"
the Intel NetStructure range of products is an intelligent solution for e-businesses to maintain fast access and topmost reliability."
Recent studies by Goldman Sachs indicated that as competition intensifies, the implementation of e-infrastructure will be the key to maintain a corporation's competitive edge. B2B e-commerce transactions in the Asia-Pacific region are predicted to reach US$440 billion by 2005, whereby Asia-Pacific would generate about 10% of the US$4.5 trillion in global B2B e-commerce transactions.
About Webvisions
Webvisions Pte Ltd, founded in 1996, is Singapore's leading web hosting provider. Webvisions hosts over 7,000 businesses internationally and provides a comprehensive range of dedicated web hosting services, such as e-commerce, server co-location, application and database hosting, to its regional and international clientele. For more information about Webvisions, please visit the company's web site at http://www.webvisions.com
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