Cinergy
Communications Company Launches New Hosting and Email
Offering [January 4, 2005]
Hostopia selected to provide enhanced small business
hosted services
Fort
Lauderdale, January 4, 2005 - Cinergy Communications
Company, a leading provider of full service residential
and business telecommunications services, has selected
Hostopia to provide fully managed, private label web
hosting and email for its small and medium business
customers. An agreement signed by the companies includes
migration services wherein Hostopia will serve Cinergy
Communication’s existing hosting customers and
provide an enhanced platform for new customers.
“We
are very excited to gain Cinergy Communications as a
private label partner,” says Franc Nemanic, president
of Hostopia. “They are an innovative and highly
reputable brand force in Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
We consider them to be an anchor provider for the region.”
Cinergy
Communications and Hostopia report that the agreement
will allow Cinergy Communications to rapidly scale to
thousands of small and medium-sized enterprise users
for hosting, e-commerce and business-class email services
that include spam filtration and virus protection.
Pat
Heck, Cinergy Communication’s chief technology
officer, comments, “We have built a very successful
hosting business to complement our wide range of voice
and data services. However, we can see the hosting market
evolving towards a new ASP model of applications delivery.
Hostopia allows us to offer dozens of new online hosted
applications that truly allow the small and medium enterprise
to build their online presence. It’s what the
market demands in hosting today.”
Hostopia’s
highly customizable private label formula lets Cinergy
Communications present its own unique brand for the
hosting and email services to its customers, and is
completely invisible as the management provider of the
services. End user technical support is provided by
Cinergy Communications, assisted by Hostopia’s
turnkey suite of customer query tools and diagnostic
applications as well as supplemental, tier two support
to Cinergy Communication’s care agents.
Heck
adds, “Our hosting business plans are now more
ambitious with Hostopia’ s help. We will be rolling
out a constant succession of value added features to
our customers and prospects such as e-commerce store
applications, all with our branding and support, of
course. Our required investment for the new platform
is negligible, because Hostopia provides everything
we need on a variable cost basis with excellent margins.
”
About Cinergy
Cinergy Communications offers advanced local and long
distance telephone services, high-speed Internet access
and web hosting to meet the needs of business and residential
customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Cinergy
Communications has a 30-year history of innovation as
the first to offer an alternative to AT&T long distance
service in Western Kentucky, as the first ISP in Southern
Indiana and as one of the first in its region to market
an alternative to SBC and BellSouth. Additional information
can be found at www.cinergycom.com.
About
Hostopia
Hostopia provides private-branded hosting, email and
e-commerce solutions to Telco’s, ISPs, cable companies,
domain registrars, and other Web Service Providers.
Hostopia’s automated provisioning and support
platforms enable service providers to increase their
hosting revenues and profits while delivering a superior
feature set to their end-user business customers. Hostopia’s
WebhostOS is a breakthrough technology that creates
a single system for managing “UNIX/Windows”
applications. Its clustered server environment allows
enterprises to benefit from sophisticated hosting features
normally associated with high-cost, non-redundant dedicated
servers at “shared hosting” prices. For
more information about Hostopia, please
visit www.hostopia.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Paul D. Engels
Hostopia.com Inc.
1 800 322-9438 ext. 7204
pengels@hostopia.com
Website: www.hostopia.com
Or
Kelly Pace
Cinergy Communications Company
812-456-4754
kpace@cinergycom.com
Website: www.cinergycom.com
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