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January 28, 2009

ViaWest Adds Enhanced Virtualization Offering

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DENVER, Jan. 28 - ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed hosting solutions, today announced the availability of an enhanced virtualization product. As no stranger to virtualization, ViaWest provides customers with a solution that leverages industry proven virtualization technologies. The ViaWest Dedicated Virtualization product more efficiently utilizes hardware, allows enhanced portability of operating systems, facilitates server consolidation, and permits the high availability of server resources.

ViaWest's launch came about as the culmination of the company's long-term use of virtualization technology for in-house enhancements, as well as a successful pilot program started in mid 2008. ViaWest engineers have employed virtualization internally to realize the benefits of improved server resource utilization, server consolidation, as well as simplify systems management. As virtualization is an obvious progression to improving the flexibility of IT operations, many companies are looking to ViaWest to facilitate and support these growing needs. ViaWest sponsored an extensive virtualization pilot program to ensure that the product would meet complex customer requirements prior to adding it to their comprehensive Managed Services portfolio.

This virtualization product from ViaWest alleviates the bond between a computer's operating systems and an associated server. By breaking this bond, a customer's 'Virtual Machine' becomes portable, which allows the 'Virtual Machine' to seamlessly be transported to other physical servers with higher available resources when the need arises. With this level of flexibility ViaWest engineers can help businesses to design, implement, and deploy an effective virtual environment that not only addresses current needs, but also simplifies their future demands and expansion requirements.

"We are very excited about the product," said Nancy Phillips, COO and Co-Founder of ViaWest. "Most conversations we have with clients include some aspect of virtualization in their future IT plans." "We see this solution addressing an obvious need, when companies are striving to find ways to reduce their infrastructure footprint and maximize their resource optimization." Nancy continued, "Through our own experience we have seen significant benefits using virtualization, and now we can apply that high level of expertise to deliver an innovative set of solutions to our customers."

Like all ViaWest products and services, virtualization is supported by highly trained solution engineers, who staff the company's network operation centers on a 24x7x365 basis. For additional information on ViaWest's Virtualization Services, please visit the ViaWest web site (www.viawest.com).

About ViaWest
Headquartered in Denver, ViaWest provides a unique set of colocation, managed hosting solutions and comprehensive services to mid-sized and enterprise level businesses. As a super-regional service provider ViaWest maintains 16 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah and Nevada, and offers broad expertise to furnish customers with leading technology infrastructure solutions and the critical resources to support their unique business needs. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, The Denver Broncos, Chipotle and Northrop Grumman. The company was named 'Technology Company of the Year' 2008 by CSIA and One of 'Colorado's Top 10 Companies to Work For'. For more information, visit www.ViaWest.com or call 1-877-448-9378

Posted by ViaWest on January 28, 2009 09:57 AM |