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World Wildlife Fund Canada Moves To Q9 As Online Donations Double
Growth Makes Web Site A Critical Medium for Fundraising, Advocacy and Events
Toronto, ON - June 24, 2003 - Q9 Networks Inc., the leading Canadian provider of Internet infrastructure services, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a managed hosting contract by World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada). Under terms of the agreement, Q9 is providing the organization with a Q9express dedicated hosting bundle comprising servers, centralized tape backup and a managed firewall.
WWF-Canada, one of the country's leading conservation organizations, with more than 60,000 individual supporters, is increasingly relying on the Internet as an environmentally friendly method of facilitating advocacy, fundraising and event management.
"We've seen exponential growth in our online donations, both in terms of dollars raised and the number of donors," says David Prowten, VP Public Support, WWF-Canada. "In the past year, donations via the Web site have doubled and online registration for WWF-sponsored events surpassed all other methods for the first time.
"As a result, we can't afford to be down, not even for an hour. Q9's expertise, fully managed solutions and impeccable references gave us the confidence to entrust them with our critical systems."
Q9 delivers unparalleled service through an extensive suite of customer care products, including a web-based portal that provides complete visibility into customer equipment and Q9 services. All Q9 and customer systems are monitored from the Q9 Network Operations Centre (NOC) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. NOC experts are also available to customers on an around-the-clock basis to resolve issues and provide advice.
"WWF-Canada is engaged in important work on behalf of all Canadians and we are delighted to have been selected as their hosting provider," says Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "Q9's breadth of solutions, depth of experience and commitment to customer service continues to give us the competitive edge in attracting top organizations across all industry segments."
Q9's sole focus on Internet infrastructure allows it to hire, train and retain highly qualified experts in Internet-specific disciplines. Key services are backed with service level agreement (SLA) guarantees for installation time and problem identification and response. These factors enable customers to outsource mission-critical systems to Q9 with complete confidence.
About World Wildlife Fund Canada
World Wildlife Fund Canada is part of WWF International, the world's largest independent conservation group. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Founded in 1961, this global network now works in more than 100 countries. All WWF offices are united by the common goal to: conserve the world's biological diversity; ensure that the use of renewable resources is sustainable; and promote the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. Working with government, business and communities across Canada since 1967, WWF-Canada currently has more than 60,000 supporters. Headquartered in Toronto, WWF-Canada also has offices in Montreal and Yellowknife, as well as on all three coasts: Halifax in the East, Prince Rupert and Vancouver in the West, and Iqaluit in the North. It also leads global conservation efforts in Cuba. For more information
please visit www.wwfcanada.org.
About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is the leading national provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure and managed hosting services for companies with mission-critical Web operations. Q9 raised $115 million in private equity financing to fund a national network of Internet data centres in major Canadian cities. Q9's data centres and network are engineered for 100 percent uptime with SLA-backed guarantees. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated servers, server bundles, firewalls, load balancing, Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client Internet operations. For more information, visit the Q9 Web
site at www.Q9.com.
For further information, please contact:
Q9 Networks
Kevin Spikes
Manager, Marketing Communications
Toll-Free: 1-888-696-2266 x7211
media.relations@Q9.com
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