Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Vancouver, British Columbia – November 13, 2012 – PEER 1 Hosting (TSX:PIX), a global Web hosting provider, has announced the launch of a program to increase its portfolio of strategic alliance partners. Partnerships will be developed with platform and solution providers whose technology will benefit from the optimized environment PEER 1 Hosting delivers.
The initiative follows PEER 1 Hosting being named by Magento, the eCommerce software platform, as a Platinum Partner. PEER 1 Hosting’s recent alliance with Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform, is a further example of the type of relationship it is seeking to develop.
Mike Mayer, global channel director for PEER 1 Hosting, who will be leading this initiative, said: “The relationships PEER 1 Hosting has formed with partners such as Tier 3 and Magento are delivering significant competitive advantages to end users. Leading edge platforms deserve and demand optimized hosting environments. End users have the peace of mind of knowing that, with our Strategic Alliance Partners, the technology and service we provide is perfectly compatible to deliver the best performance.”
In addition to offering 19 data centers and 21 Points of Presence across North America and EMEA, PEER 1 Hosting has its own high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network™, which spans 25k miles and connects its data centers, enabling it to offer a 99.999 percent uptime guarantee.
PEER 1 Hosting is fully PCI-DSS 2.0 compliant, meaning that Strategic Alliance Partners for whom data security and compliance is critical because their applications involve processing credit card details, can offer a holistic solution to end users.
Baruch Toledano, director of product management for Magento said: “PEER 1 Hosting is a Magento Platinum Partner that spans both the US and EMEA. We continuously collaborate with them to create a platform that has our end user’s needs at its heart and, in turn, deliver benefits for our entire ecosystem.”
Jared Wray, founder and CEO at Tier 3, said: “The partnership between Tier 3 and PEER 1 Hosting puts the customer front and center. Tier 3 is expanding its global reach while PEER 1 Hosting customers realize the benefits of the industry’s leading virtual private cloud solution. By coming together we are enabling customers to take advantage of our joint innovation via a high performance cloud service that allows companies to focus on their growing businesses.”
About PEER 1 Hosting
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading web hosting providers, specializing in Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Colocation and Cloud Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting is built on two obsessions: Ping People. ‘Ping’; represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network™ connected by 19 state-of-the-art data centers, 21 points-of-presences, and 25K miles of fiber across 14 cities. ‘People’; represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 13,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX.www.peer1hosting.com.