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Fri, July 17, 2009 Concentric: Concentric Receives Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - July 17, 2009) - [ Concentric ] announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named [ Concentric Managed Server ] a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
Concentric Managed Server is an enterprise-class, highly available, fully managed hosting solution designed for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) on either Linux® or Windows® platforms. The Concentric Managed Server helps SME organizations host customer applications and websites, with cost-effective disaster recovery, as well as the flexibility to run mission critical applications that require servers to run in a fault-tolerant, high availability environment. To read more about this innovative product, please visit [ http://www.concentric.com/managed_server.php ].
"Innovation is clearly an important factor for greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network Products Guide. "Innovative products such as Concentric Managed Server are bringing improvements in the SME market by providing scalability, functionality, and a cost-effective solution."
"Network Products Guide's recognition of the Concentric Managed Server further validates our products and services as excellence-in-class and ahead of the curve," said Craig Collins, President, Concentric. "The immense benefit that Concentric Managed Server provides to the SME organizations is to help maintain enterprise-level capabilities such as high availability, scalability, and proven security without ongoing maintenance expenditures and performance issues of underpowered, old servers."
About Concentric
[ Concentric ] provides enterprise hosted IT solutions that streamline IT management, improve security and uptime, and reduce costs for small and medium-sized businesses. The company's innovative technology platform is based on patented, clustered architecture that delivers superior reliability, scalability, and security. Services include applications hosting, business-class email, anti-spam and anti-virus solutions, and managed servers, all backed by 24x7 live customer support and an in-house Professional Services group to help businesses that need additional resources. Concentric is a business unit of XO Communications, a leading national telecommunications provider. For more information, visit [ www.concentric.com ] or call (866) 500-9696.
About Network Products Guide Awards
Network Products Guide is a media sponsor of Interop and Technosium Executive Alliance Forums engaging Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). As industry's leading technology research and advisory publication, it plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit [ www.networkproductsguide.com ].
About XO Communications
[ XO Communications ], a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (
