NCR signs to Interxion Switzerland
A partnership for the future May 2002- Interxion, Europe’s leading operator of Internet Exchange Centers™ (IECs), announces NCR Corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of Relationship Technology™ solutions, as its latest customer signing for IEC services. The contract, which is initially for a 3-year period, brings together two of the biggest players in their respective industries, allowing NCR to offer its customers a bundled solution of its best-in-class services with Interxion’s state-of-the-art equipment housing.
NCR is one of the leading providers of IT services. The goal of NCR is being the partner of choice to its customers for outsourcing activities. This allows NCR customers to operate within a lean organisation and focus their activities on their respective core businesses.
Data security is one of the key elements in this business. NCR’s partnership with Interxion means that NCR customers are guaranteed not only the very highest level of security but also uninterrupted power supply and a full-service maintenance facility to ensure that their equipment is fully operational 24x365. Interxion’s quality of service guarantees, combined with its flexibility and scalable growth options, proved to be an important factor in NCR’s decision.
The introduction of NCR to Interxion’s Zurich facility serves to highlight the security and value added services that Interxion’s IECs can provide. Commenting on their decision to house their customer’s equipment with Interxion, Joseph Kaiser, Director Customer Service of NCR Switzerland, comments, “We were impressed with the level of security and the scalability that Interxion’s IECs have to offer. At NCR we aim to meet the needs of clients – namely, ensuring that their data can be used to serve each of their customers as an individual. In a similar way we choose to work with partners who provide solutions based on our needs. Interxion’s facilities, together with NCR’s best-in-class IT services, allows us to offer a very interesting package of managed services to our customers’.
Harald Helnwein, Managing Director of Interxion Switzerland, adds, “This is the first step in a partnership to provide the highest quality infrastructure support to NCR and its customers. Interxion prides itself on providing the very highest level of knowledge and expertise. Working closely with customers and partners in this way is central to our strategy to remain the leading carrier-neutral data center and managed services provider both in Zurich and across Europe. We are delighted that NCR recognize our commitment to offering them the value added services they need.”
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About Interxion:
Interxion is one of Europe’s leading providers of carrier-neutral data center and managed services. With 20 Internet Exchange Centers™ (IECs) across Europe, it supports more than 250 customers including enterprises, service providers, hosting and telecommunications companies. These include Eircom, Genuity Solutions, OM Technology, Siemens, and Wanadoo. Its services provide customers with solutions to better manage their ICT and Internet infrastructure, including equipment housing, access to carrier networks, maintenance services, monitoring and other managed services. Interxion is also host to six of Europe’s peering Internet exchanges (BNIX; DE-CIX; LINX; SFINX; SWISSIX; VIX), which combined with its carrier-neutrality, provides the highest levels of access to top tier carriers and ISPs.
Interxion employs 280 staff in 11 countries and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since its foundation, Interxion has raised more than €280 million from a leading group of investors around the world.
For more information, www.interxion.com
About NCR Corporation:
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leader in providing Relationship TechnologyTM solutions to customers worldwide in the retail, financial, communications, manufacturing, travel and transportation, and insurance markets. NCR's Relationship Technology solutions include privacy-enabled Teradata® warehouses and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, store automation and automated teller machines (ATMs). The company's business solutions are built on the foundation of its long-established industry knowledge and consulting expertise, value-adding software, global customer support services, a complete line of consumable and media products, and leading edge hardware technology. NCR employs 31,400 in more than 100 countries, and is a component stock of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. More information about NCR and its solutions may be found at www.ncr.com.
For further information, contact Interxion:
Martyn Evans/Theresa Ely, Origin Communications Ltd
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7377 9911 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7377 0011
Heidi Cooper, Interxion Headquarters
[email protected]: +31 (0)655 120 600