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Wal-Mart Canada Selects Q9 For Fully Managed Hosting Solution
Toronto, ON - February 12, 2008 - Q9 Networks Inc. (TSX:Q) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to provide a fully-managed hosting solution for Wal-Mart Canada's Web site.
Wal-Mart Canada's Web site provides descriptions and pricing for more than 5,000 items carried in-store and processes up to four million visitors per month during peak periods. Q9's comprehensive hosting solution, consisting of servers, firewalls, tape back-ups and managed bandwidth, guarantees the security, reliability and performance of the Wal-Mart Canada site on a 7x24 basis.
"Wal-Mart stores nationwide serve more than one million Canadians daily," said Nicole O'Connor, Director of Information Systems, Wal-Mart Canada. "Making sure those customers are well served includes making certain they are well informed about our products, services and company programs. We need a reliable way to communicate to our customers online, and selected Q9 based on their ability to meet our high standards with their state-of-the-art facilities, technology and service."
Q9 designs, builds and operates its data centres to meet the most demanding IT infrastructure requirements, including the increased power and cooling demands of today's high density computing devices. Customers connect to the Internet via Q9's unique network and are protected by Q9's 100 percent, SLA-backed uptime guarantees on both power and network availability. Customer equipment and data centre environmental parameters are monitored 7x24 by Q9's Control Centre, staffed by experts versed in all aspects of IT and facilities management.
"We are delighted to have been chosen by Wal-Mart, one of Canada's top retailers and a company that is known for striving to be the best in everything it does," said Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "Our data centre services are designed with exactly this type of customer in mind. We look forward to providing Wal-Mart with the robust and secure infrastructure it needs to ensure high-availability."
About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is a leading Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9's data centres and network are backed by an industry leading SLA which guarantees 100% network and power availability. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.
For further information, please contact:
Kevin Spikes
Director of Corporate & Investor Relations
Q9 Networks Inc.
Toronto: 416-848-3311
Toll Free: 1-888-696-2266
media.relations@Q9.com
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