Features

IP Application Hosting Infrastructure

Features:

• Verizon Global IP Network
• Smart Center Data Centers
• Secure Facilities
• Smart Center Private Network

Benefits:

• Leverages the Verizon IP network to connect you directly to one of the most rigorously engineered networks in the industry
• Keeps your Web traffic flow traveling with redundant, diverse routes from the data center facility
• Prevents any single point of failure
• Sends information point to point efficiently

Managed Platforms

Features:

• Microsoft® Windows®
• Sun® Solaris™
• Red Hat® Linux®
• IBM AIX™
• HP-UX™
• Managed Storage

Description:

• Provides a strong foundation designed to maintain application reliability and availability
• Supports five of the most popular operating platforms tuned specifically for Web-based applications
• Allows you to outsource full management of your Web sites, portals, e commerce and business applications to Verizon

Smart Services

Features:

• Smart Security
• Smart Backup
• Smart Monitoring
• Smart Reporting
• Smart Administration

Description:

• Offers an alternative to other enterprise management systems (EMS) by delivering the management software for backup, monitoring, reporting, security and systems administration as a service
• Saves the time and resources associated with customizing EMS for your environment
• Eliminates the need to go through vendor selection, functional testing, license negotiations or annual maintenance royalty payments
• Delivers these functions under competitive service-level agreements (SLAs)

Smart Center Networking Services

Features:

• Load Balancing
• Managed Firewalls
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Private Networking
• Private IP Smart Center Interconnect Services
• Data Networking Services (includes Private Line, Frame Relay and ATM services)

Description:

• Offers industry-leading technologies — from managed firewalls that protect the network to advanced load-balancing solutions that improve traffic flow
• Helps maintain continuous availability, routing and secure delivery of rich graphical interfaces that are personalized for end users
• Through Private Networking, enables you to establish a secure private connection between your corporate office and your servers located in our Smart Centers
• Lets you establish a scalable and robust Private IP connection or choose from several Data Networking options including Private Line, Frame Relay and ATM services

High Availability Services

Features:

• Dynamic Failover
• Standby Database
• Enterprise Failover
• Application Clusters

Description:

• Offers a highly resilient platform for mission-critical applications
• Provides options that help maintain continuous operation of e-businesses

Server Support

Description:

• Select support level — Provides 24 / 7 technical support to keep client servers up and running
• Basic support level — Provides a budget-conscious option for companies willing to assume a more active role in site management

Client Services Account Management

Description:

• Provides a single point of contact who understands your business objectives and configuration interdependencies
• Results in speedier issue resolution and proactive support
• Intended for companies needing support beyond the Select level

Client Central Portal

Description:

• Provides a wide variety of self-service tools and customizable reporting via a self-service portal

Managed Applications

Features:

• Commerce
• Databases
• Application Server
• Portals
• Enterprise
• Messaging

Description:

• Provides 24 / 7 operational services to maintain the reliability, availability and security of leading applications
• Specifically designed to address reliability at the application layer
• Works across an entire multi-tiered architecture, for comprehensive, end-to-end resiliency

Hosting Professional Services

Features:

• Smart Center Security Services
• Testing Services
• Staging Services
• Change Management
• Results Measurement

Benefits:

• Provides a broad array of services to aid in leveraging capacity and performance out of your infrastructure components
• Supports your business goals by providing the professional services and information you need

Customer Equipment Management

Features:

• Customer-owned equipment
• Site management by Verizon Business
• Verizon Business proprietary build
• Value-added services
• Hardware management and maintenance
• Hardware and software addition and modification
• Software patches and service packs
• Hardware break / fix

Benefits:

• Lets you leverage the investment in your own equipment
• Manages your equipment in Verizon Business Smart Centers to our world-class standards

PCI Compliant

Features:

• Recognized by Visa as PCI compliant in our two U.S. Smart Centers

Benefits:

• Translates to better protection of sensitive customer information and more consumer confidence

Service Options

Verizon can host your intranet, extranet, commerce site, corporate Web site or more. Verizon IP Application Hosting provides a joint management hosting solution for IP applications, allowing you to maintain root access to servers while outsourcing the management of server hardware, operating system and base applications.

IP Application Hosting also lets you leverage the process and technology excellence of Verizon Business — as shown by our SysTrust® Certification, Microsoft® Gold Certification, SunToneSM Certified Provider status, HP SP Certification and BSI Security Seal of Approval — so you can bring your Web-enabled applications to a high level of security and availability.

Customer Examples:

• A leading car manufacturer leverages Verizon IP Application Hosting to host all of its public-facing Web sites, including sites where customers can virtually build and price a car, determine dealer location, access maintenance schedules, make payments online, etc.
• A large pharmaceutical company relies on Verizon IP Application Hosting for hosting of its corporate intranet, all of its brand sites (more than 160) and a business-to-business site for distributors to achieve a common platform and look and feel for all aspects of its Web presence
• A prominent clothing retailer hosts its site with Verizon IP Application Hosting, relying on Verizon Business to keep its heavily trafficked Internet presence — representing more than 17% of its revenue stream — available and secure for customer shopping and purchases
• For one of the world’s largest brewers, Verizon Business hosts more than 150 Web sites, including the brewer’s corporate site, several individual brand sites, its internal training site and its commerce site, which sells company merchandise