SPORT, the free weekly sports magazine, selects AGARIK to host its myfreesport.fr web site
AGARIK establishes high-availability on-demand platform to ensure the website's success.
Paris,
December
6, 2006 -
SPORT, the free weekly magazine dedicated to sport, published in France, is continuing its development with the launch of myfreesport.fr: a highly interactive website aimed at reaching a million individual visitors per month next year. AGARIK has been chosen to support this initiative because of its highly recognized expertise in the French market for web hosting and critical infrastructure management.
In response to SPORT's needs, AGARIK has developed a modular and evolutionary platform, featuring high-availability, redundancy and scalability, to enable the customer to manage the future growth of the system.
Frank Ducret, Operations Manager at SPORT, explains how the magazine has chosen the highest levels of flexibility offered by AGARIK's solution: "The platform that AGARIK has set up can absorb significant increases in workload without any additional management costs. We really appreciate the technical and financial adaptability offered by AGARIK's solution. And this flexibility is linked to an irreproachable quality of the hosting service."
In addition, AGARIK is offering SPORT the most rigorous SLA (Service Level Agreement) on the market when it comes to on-site intervention and maintenance downtime.
SPORT has opted for AGARIK's Outsourcing Services offering, including a full range of 24x7 services (technical support, on-site management and monitoring) and optimum levels of security.
About SPORT MEDIAS & STRATEGIES
SPORTS MEDIAS & STRATEGIES, publisher of the free SPORT magazine, produces 550,000 copies a week in 11 major French cities, as well as 350,000 copies in London. More information is available through the global sport website MYFREESPORT.FR.
About AGARIK
Created in 1997, AGARIK is a recognized provider of hosting and outsourcing services in the French market. Since 2001, its annual growth rate has averaged almost 40%. In 2005, it recorded revenues of more than €5 million and is forecast is to exceed €6 million in 2006.
Its range of solutions extends from rented hosting space in its secured white rooms to global outsourcing of on-line services. AGARIK provides its expertise to more than 150 organizations - software firms, major companies, SME and public sector bodies - in terms of infrastructure and network management, monitoring, managed services and security.
The company employs nearly 40 people, 80% of them technical experts. These technical teams are located less than 100 meters from the main datacenters. They manage and maintain in operational conditions more than 1,300 items of computer equipment (including 900 servers), 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result, the company can offer the most rigorous Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in the industry.
Agarik has developed its own Metropolitan Area Network (MAN ) in the Paris area - consisting of approximately 100km of optical fiber connecting seven datacenters (soon to be eight) including its two operational datacenters (Redbus and Neuf Telecom).
AGARIK recently acquired Soft2You, thus reinforcing its expertise in the Application Service Provider (ASP) segment of the market, and in Microsoft technologies.
In July 2006, AGARIK became a subsidiary of the Bull Group.
For more information, visit www.AGARIK.com
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