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YouSendIt Supports Worldwide Customer Growth for Cloud-Based Collaboration Services with Internap's High-Performance IT Infrastructure
Internap Network Services
Corporation announced that YouSendIt is leveraging Internap's managed hosting,
scalable storage and global Performance IP network. Internap's IT
Infrastructure portfolio delivers the flexibility, capacity and performance
requirements needed to meet the demands of YouSendIt's rapidly growing customer
base.
YouSendIt provides a
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based collaboration solution to more than 20
million registered users worldwide. The massive growth in collaborative
applications – expected to reach $14 billion by 2015, according to research
firm IDC – is fueling YouSendIt's momentum, driving more than one million new
registered users each month. Seeking a highly flexible and customized solution
that better supports its evolving global infrastructure needs, YouSendIt
recently switched its European data center operations to Internap.
"We chose Internap
because of its unique ability to offer the complete, holistic IT Infrastructure
package that we were looking for, which balances flexibility, superior support
and cost effectiveness," said
YouSendIt is using Internap's
managed hosting solution and route-optimized Performance IP network to maintain
data for its European customers and meet file transfer performance requirements
for users across
"As global solution
providers rapidly expand their businesses and services, their needs are
becoming broader and more complex," said John Freimuth, vice president of
business development and hosting at Internap. "Organizations like
YouSendIt are turning to Internap based on our ability to offer a full range of
IT platforms to meet their current and future needs, underpinned by
high-performance connectivity solutions that deliver best performance to their
end users."
Internap's enterprise IT
Infrastructure offering includes secure, scalable colocation, managed hosting
and cloud services with advanced monitoring and 24/7 live customer support.
Customers can also access Internap's Performance IP network, Accelerated IP
(XIP) service and Content Delivery Network (CDN) from its worldwide locations.
Performance IP uses patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO) technology
to analyze network performance characteristics, resulting in intelligent,
optimized and highly reliable delivery of customer content, applications and
communications throughout the world.