ATLANTA, July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthLink Holdings
Corp. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading managed network, security and cloud
solutions provider, has expanded its cloud and network optimization
portfolio with its new Cloud Express™. Designed to help businesses
transition and migrate to a cloud-based model, Cloud Express
provides customers with secure, private connections directly from
their Wide Area Network (WAN) to the growing ecosystem of leading
cloud providers and provides the foundation for a hybrid cloud
environment. Isolated from threats over the public Internet,
applications receive increased bandwidth and uptime for
significantly improved performance and security results.
"Cloud Express creates a solid foundation for our customers to
accelerate their shift to the cloud while protecting their brand,"
said Stephen Currie, Vice President
of Managed Services Product Management, EarthLink. "EarthLink's
vision is to create a private cloud eco-system of SaaS providers
within the Retail, Healthcare, and other industry verticals."
EarthLink Cloud Express delivers secure, direct high-performance
connections to leading Cloud service providers such as Amazon Web
Services™ and Microsoft Azure™. Easy to deploy and operate, the
virtual network circuits are quickly provisioned, scalable, and
have no access costs. Cloud Express is fully-managed by EarthLink,
so the customer's IT organization can focus its resources on
strategic customer experience initiatives. Customers also
enjoy complete visibility and control via EarthLink's
myLink® customer portal.
Cloud Express is part of EarthLink's leading-edge portfolio of
secure services that right-size enterprise and cloud networks to
improve cloud and business application performance while protecting
against security threats. Without a reliable, secure WAN
foundation, IT leaders can experience difficulties executing
critical initiatives that improve their end user experience, such
as real-time inventory and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
applications. Companies turn to EarthLink to design custom networks
to match their unique operational demands, obtain better
performance from their existing investments, help meet industry
compliance requirements such as PCI or HIPAA and privately connect
to cloud resources. Solutions include:
- Network right-sizing to optimize costs, including
network capacity planning and design, choice of access options to
connect locations, and deep application visibility and control to
maximize bandwidth utilization.
- Hybrid Networking, a flexible network design to meet diverse
customer service and business demands, with multiple access and
transport technology options by location to build a foundation for
Software Defined (SD) WAN and Network as a Service (NaaS).
- Brand protection with highly secure WAN solutions
including cloud firewalls, direct connects to payment processors,
encryption and PCI compliance solutions.
To remove the guesswork from network capacity planning and
offload tactical operations, Cloud Express customers can also
engage EarthLink's Professional Services team to holistically
engineer their network optimization plan. EarthLink specialists
evaluate the network, determine the ideal WAN architecture,
identify which workloads to move, what type of cloud environment to
utilize (public, private, hybrid) and which third-party provider is
the best choice, and help migrate workloads to the cloud.
About EarthLink
EarthLink (EarthLink Holdings Corp., NASDAQ: ELNK) provides managed
network, security and cloud solutions for multi-location
businesses. We help thousands of specialty retailers, restaurants,
financial institutions, healthcare providers, professional service
firms and local governments deliver a reliable and engaging
customer experience in their stores and branch offices. We do so by
building and managing MPLS WAN networks, by providing virtualized
infrastructure, security, hosted voice, secure WiFi and compliance
solutions, and by offering exceptional customer care. We operate a
nationwide network spanning more than 28,000 fiber route miles,
with 90 metro fiber rings and secure data centers that provide
ubiquitous data and voice IP service coverage. Our EarthLink
Carrier™ division sells facilities-based wholesale
telecommunications to other providers and our award-winning
Internet services connect hundreds of thousands of residential
customers across the U.S. For more, visit www.earthlink.com and
follow @earthlink, LinkedIn and Google+.
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