ATLANTA, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Internap Network
Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider of
end-to-end internet business products and services, today announced
that DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading content provider of
high-resolution earth imagery, is using Internap's Managed Hosting
and route-optimized Performance IP network to power DigitalGlobe's
web services offering. This solution enables rapid web access
to DigitalGlobe's collection of earth imagery delivered through
three content distribution nodes in Colorado, Hong
Kong and London.
DigitalGlobe's constellation of industry-leading commercial
high-resolution satellites and aerial network allows it to collect
more than 500 million square kilometers of earth imagery every
year. Leveraging Internap's solutions, DigitalGlobe's content can
be integrated and embedded into geospatial applications for defense
and intelligence used by civil governments and commercial customers
across desktops, portals, intranets and mobile devices around the
world. DigitalGlobe's web services enable near real-time access to
daily imagery collections required for advanced imagery based
applications and provides developers the flexibility and robust
feature set necessary to bring a real-world view into geospatial
applications.
DigitalGlobe selected Internap based on its worldwide reach and
technical expertise. Internap's tailored solution enables the
movement of large amounts of imagery data within seconds of
transmission, significantly improving the speed of delivery across
its route-optimized IP transit services to create next-generation
data delivery. Working with Internap, DigitalGlobe is able to host
massive amounts of geo-located data in Internap's data centers to
offer customers the ability to rapidly search and select purchased
images and have these delivered "on demand," with the highest level
of network responsiveness and application performance transparency.
Utilizing Internap's Managed Hosting services eliminates the need
for customers to download terabytes of data to their own data
storage facilities and are effectively creating a flexible
outsource model for increasing IT infrastructure requirements.
"DigitalGlobe is committed to continuing to lead the innovation
within the geospatial industry to ensure our customers have the
content they need, delivered easily and efficiently. Our
relationship with Internap helped create a unique, game-changing
global distribution solution that enables us to transfer huge
amounts of data anywhere on the planet in seconds – an industry
standard that no other provider can duplicate," said Scott Hicar, Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer at DigitalGlobe. "The strength of Internap's
services in key global markets made it an obvious choice in our
efforts to reduce latency. Together with Internap's solutions, we
are confident our customers, no matter where they are, will receive
content – and thus valuable information and insight – more quickly
and efficiently than previously possible."
Internap's integrated solutions leverage its patented Managed
Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO) network optimization technology,
which selects the best path for internet traffic by analyzing
network characteristics like latency, packet loss and route
stability. MIRO is backed by a 100 percent performance service
level agreement. Internap's Managed Hosting portfolio includes
managed servers and managed storage along with data protection
service, virtualization products, managed network products and
advanced monitoring with 24/7 live customer support. With this
service, customers retain control over the software applications
and content on their server while Internap controls and manages the
server hardware, operating system, space, power and bandwidth to
provide the flexibility necessary for customers to deliver
mission-critical business applications across the globe.
"As more and more organizations such as DigitalGlobe automate
and advance their core business differentiators, the quality of the
underlying network and integrated solutions that support these
applications becomes paramount to business performance," said
Peter Evans, Senior Vice President
of Marketing at Internap. "Internap is in the unique position of
helping enterprises deliver on the promise of these emerging
network environments to support their evolving value proposition
with the unmatched combination of high-performance IP route
optimization and Managed Hosting capabilities."
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced
from its own advanced satellite constellation, DigitalGlobe's
imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and
intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental
monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management,
internet portals and navigation technology. With DigitalGlobe's
collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing
more than one billion square kilometers of earth imagery and
imagery products), it offers a range of on- and off-line products
and services designed to enable customers to easily access and
integrate DigitalGlobe's imagery into their business operations and
applications. For more information, please visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
About Internap
Internap is a leading internet services and products company
that provides The Ultimate Online Experience® by managing,
delivering and distributing applications and content with 100
percent uptime service level agreements. With a platform of data
centers around the world, managed internet services and a content
delivery network (CDN), Internap frees its customers to innovate,
improve service levels, and lower the cost of IT operations.
Thousands of companies worldwide trust Internap to help them
achieve their internet business goals. For more information, visit
http://www.internap.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements include statements related to the
features, functionality and performance of our products and
services and the benefits our customers are expected to receive
from them. Because such statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there are
important factors that could cause our actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These
factors include our ability to respond successfully to
technological change; the ability of our services and products to
perform as we expect; the availability of services from internet
network service providers or network service providers providing
network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all;
failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and
services on favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network
operations centers, data centers, network access points or computer
systems; our ability to provide or improve internet infrastructure
services to our customers; and our ability to protect our
intellectual property, as well as other factors discussed in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these
risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance
on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We
undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any
forward-looking statement for any reason.
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DigitalGlobe
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SOURCE Internap Network Services Corporation