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TOSHIBA CHOOSES SPHERA HOSTINGDIRECTOR TO MANAGE ITS HOSTING OPERATIONS
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Toshiba's iValue Creation Company Selects HostingDirector™ to Drive New Internet-and e-Commerce Offering.
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Sphera Corporation today announced that the iValue Creation Company, one of the in-house companies of Toshiba, has selected Sphera HostingDirectorTM to automate and manage its Web hosting business operations. Sphera HostingDirector will enable iVC to streamline hosting processes and offer new services and value-added applications throughout Toshiba's regional offices, subsidiaries, and their many sites. Triangle Technologies assisted in the negotiation of the agreement.
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"HostingDirector is the only product to allow iVC to efficiently and effectively provide managed services and applications to our internal and external customers," said Dr. Katsuhiko Yamashita, vice president & chief strategy officer of iValue Creation Company, Toshiba Corporation. "Over the next three years, iVC has made a commitment to embrace cutting-edge technologies such as Sphera HostingDirector that will create value and maximize inter-company efficiency throughout Toshiba."
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iVC, one of Toshiba's 10 in-house companies, was established in April 2000 to spearhead Toshiba's new Internet, e-commerce and mobile Internet hosting offering. The company is also a wireless ASP for the Japanese and Asian market and currently provides access for several million consumers per day. As investment in data center operations in Japan rapidly expands, iVC and Toshiba will concentrate resources on products that will provide the greatest competitive advantage in all aspects of mobile applications and networking company-wide.
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The power of Sphera HostingDirector is in its open architecture software platform and extensibility, enabling iVC to offer Toshiba a rich complement of Web services and applications. Using the HostingDirector SDK and API provides iVC with an ongoing volution path for its hosting offerings. Current and next-generation hosting services, coupled with easily-added applications, will also be managed by Sphera's unique, scalable technology. HostingDirector delivers critical advances in hosting resource utilization, application extensibility and service provisioning. Sphera's flagship product streamlines complex hosting processes, thereby reducing administrative costs and delivering higher value to Toshiba.
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"Through our strategic relationship with Toshiba, Sphera has scored a major win in the Japanese market," said Tamar Noar, CEO of Sphera. "As Toshiba deploys HostingDirector, our companies will work closely to make exciting new services and applications available to Japanese customers."
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Separately, Sphera has announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Mitsui under which Mitsui has become the exclusive distributor of HostingDirector in Japan. In the context of this agreement, Mitsui will provide marketing and technical support to Toshiba as well as the rest of the Japanese market.
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About HostingDirector |
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HostingDirector is an open architecture software platform enabling providers to achieve real revenue growth through a rich offering of Web services and applications. HostingDirector offers advances in hosting resource utilization, application extensibility, global management, scalability, provisioning and usage-based reporting. Its extensible, scalable and open architecture streamlines complex processes, reducing administrative costs and delivering higher value to the end customer. In addition, Sphera's one-step, automated solution facilitates alliances and partnerships with leading vendors to create out-of-the box solutions, resulting in faster time-to-market and increased revenues for service providers.
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About Sphera |
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Founded in 1998, Sphera is pioneering a new approach for IDCs, ISPs and Web hosting providers to deliver value added applications and Web services. Experienced in the day-to-day challenges facing hosting providers, Sphera has developed an extensible Web hosting platform that delivers on the promise of end-to-end service automation. The company's flagship product, Sphera HostingDirector, automates the Web hosting industry by offering a comprehensive management infrastructure that enables reliable hosting, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sphera technology puts the power of time, resources and control back into the hands of the hosting provider, resulting in new sources of revenue growth and greater profitability to the corporate bottom line. Sphera is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Virginia and London, and R&D facilities in Israel. For more information about Sphera and its products, call us at 212/858-7770 or visit our Web site at http://www.sphera.com
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About iValue Creation Company of Toshiba |
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iValue Creation was established as an in-house company of Toshiba Corporation in April 2000 to spearhead Toshiba's new Internet business strategy. One of iValue Creation's strategies is to invest in companies that are developing new technologies for Internet applications. In so doing, iValue Creation intends to expand its businesses, including ASP services.
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About Triangle Technologies |
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Triangle Technologies forms technology oriented alliances between Israeli and Japanese companies. Triangle Technologies has three major areas of activity strategic alliance formation; private placement; and venture creation. With more than 100 years cumulative experience in Japanese, Israeli, and international marketplaces, Triangle Technologies' executives work with Israel's technology leaders and Japan's leading manufacturers, Internet and e-commerce players, trading companies, venture capital funds, and other financial institutions. Triangle Technologies has signed over 70 Japanese-Israeli deals,and has been instrumental in creating new ventures, most recently in the Internet and e-Commerce area. More information is available at http://www.triangletech.com
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