AT&T (Pan-European) Managed Hosting
AT&T offers a competitive and flexible managed hosting service, supported by strong SLAs and the industry-leading iGEMS platform, though competitors will undermine its offer by pointing to its relatively limited European data centre footprint. (9/4/2007)

Price: $495

BT Global Services (Pan-European) Managed Hosting
BT's managed hosting services are threatening in Europe because the service provider has 26 managed hosting data centres spread throughout Europe (11 of which are UK-based). Few rivals can match this facility-depth. (8/29/2007)

Price: $495

COLT Telecom (Pan-European) Data Centre Solutions
COLT offers a flexible and scalable range of network-based hosting solutions within its extensive 13-country European footprint, but it may miss out on major contracts due to its reliance on third parties to supply services outside of Europe. (8/31/2007)

Price: $495

IBM (Pan-European) Information Technology Services Managed Hosting
IBM Information Technology Services offers a robust range of managed hosting solutions supported by extensive partnerships, but reliance on third-parties for network services will be highlighted by competitors with wholly owned infrastructure. (8/31/2007)

Price: $495

Orange Business Services (Pan-European) Managed Hosting
Orange Business Services managed hosting is competitive due to an effective network-based design and thorough partnership listing. Data centre locations in 2 countries (UK and France) gives an edge to rivals with more extensive facilities. (3/25/2008)

Price: $495

T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom) (Pan-European) Hosting and ASP Services
T-Systems has an early lead in the European hosted services market in the area of on-demand services. The carrier has a strong hosting capability and data centre footprint, but needs to export its services outside of Germany more effectively. (9/5/2007)

Price: $495

Verizon Business (Pan-European) Managed Hosting
Verizon Business offers a range of managed hosting solutions via data centres situated on top of its global network, but the solutions are only provided from three European facilities, compromising its sales positioning outside these countries. (9/5/2007)

Price: $495

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    • Security is a top concern for customers that require managed hosting services to be deployed from a secure environment, with data at the network levels through managed firewalls, redundant local tails and uninterruptible power supply, eliminating all single points of failure.
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    • Application Server
    • Hardware
    • Operating Systems
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    • On-Site Security
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    • 24 x 7 Server Monitoring (with Fault Restoration)
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    • Clustering
    • Load Balancing
    • Traffic Reporting
  • Security and Data Protection
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    • Data Storage
    • Managed Firewall
    • Authentification
    • Site Mirroring
  • Administrative Services
    • Domain Name Registration
    • IP Address Allocation
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    • Latency
    • Packet Delivery
    • Network Availability
    • Server Availability
    • Online Monitoring Tools
    • 24 x 7 Customer Care
    • Server Implementation Targets
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