Latisys Signs Colo Deal with NetQuote

(Web Host Industry Review) – – Online insurance marketplace NetQuote (www.netquote.com) announced on Wednesday it has selected data center operator Latisys (www.latisys.com) for the colocation of NetQuote’s business-critical online infrastructure.

NetQuote provides insurance-related content, services and tools to consumers of insurance services, to an end user community of more than 25 million users spanning thousands of insurance agents throughout the United States.

Latisys says it will provide NetQuote with “highly secure and reliable, high-density colocation services backed by 100 percent service-level agreements for the data center’s power and environmental systems.”

This will include Latisys Managed Optimized IP, which uses the rich network connectivity provided by some of the largest telecommunications companies in the world with infrastructure in Latisys’ US data centers.

“The full set of Latisys services affords us the ability to adapt our IT infrastructure to meet the growth of our Web operations,” says John Marosi, director of technology operations for NetQuote. “Superior connectivity and the ultimate in colocation services, plus the availability of a full suite of IT infrastructure solutions, including its highly elastic managed computing offering, all add up to make Latisys the right service provider to manage the production environment for our Web operations.”

Formerly called Managed Data Holdings, the company changed its name to Latisys in March to reflect a new brand that unites its strategy, data center locations and service offerings under one company name.

The company has grown significantly, particularly within the last year. Over the past few quarters, Latisys has expanded by more than 30,000 square feet its footprint of sellable data center space to meet this growing customer demand.

Latisys provides a range of services, including colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions to all small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers.

By Justin Lee