ATLANTA, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Internap Network
Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance
Internet infrastructure services, today announced that Datalex, the
world's leading provider of ecommerce and retail software solutions
for the travel industry, has selected Internap to provide the
infrastructure diversity, scale and performance to support the
company's fast-growing, international airline customer base and
process billions of real-time transactions. Datalex will use
Internap's managed hosting, private cloud, colocation and cloud
object storage services, as well as its route-optimized Performance
IP™ transit, to ensure that multi-channel travel
transactions are completed seamlessly through the Datalex Travel
Distribution Platform (TDP).
According to the International Air Transport Association,
airline profit margins in 2014 will reach just 2.6 percent. Faced
with intense industry competition, airlines are seeking ways to
drive higher margin revenue opportunities through enhanced retail
experiences across digital channels. Datalex provides tailored and
optimized pricing, shopping and merchandizing that helps the
world's leading airlines manage and deliver optimal travel shopping
experiences for all of their products and services.
"As demand for our travel retail solutions continues to expand
globally, it is critical that our Internet infrastructure can
cost-efficiently scale and deliver a flawless experience for our
airline clients and their travel customers," said Robert Kenny, director of support and hosting at
Datalex. "After a rigorous review of numerous providers, we chose
Internap based on its ability to provide a flexible hybrid
environment, backed by performance and low-latency guarantees, that
meets our unique application needs today and will support our
growth in the future."
Datalex must manage massive amounts of customer transactions
while ensuring the highest levels of reliability for its airline
clients and their guests. As a result, the company sought an
infrastructure solution that could meet its strict requirements for
increased control, customization, scalability and performance.
Datalex selected Internap's managed hosting service for its
mission-critical Travel Distribution Platform. With Internap
helping to manage much of the server procurement, deployment and
configuration, Datalex will be able to focus on the development and
growth of its platform, while streamlining resource needs and
costs. Datalex will run other applications and databases within
Internap's colocation and private cloud environments and will
utilize Internap's AgileFILES cloud-based object storage.
Additionally, Internap's global Performance IP connectivity will
ensure that the billions of retail transactions going through
Datalex's ecommerce platform are delivered over the fastest
Internet path to provide a reliable, seamless guest experience
regardless of geographic location.
"The reliability, scalability and overall performance of
Internet infrastructure is critical for any data-intensive
application that processes heavy transaction loads in real-time,
from ecommerce to analytics to mobile advertising bidding
platforms," said Steve Orchard,
Internap's senior vice president and general manager, data center
and network services. "With our high-performance, hybrid
infrastructure services – ranging from automated public cloud
offerings to more customized colocation and hosting services –
Internap is uniquely positioned to help companies cost-efficiently
scale their performance-intensive applications to deliver a
flawless user experience for their end customers on any device,
anywhere, any time."
The hybrid infrastructure environment for Datalex is hosted in
Internap's premium downtown Atlanta data center. Designed with advanced
power and energy standards, the facility has achieved Green Globes®
and Energy Star certifications and features a modular, high-density
design to economically support long-term customer growth, with
capacity for up to 18kW power draw per cabinet.
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About Datalex
Voted the 'World's Leading Travel
Merchandizing Solution Provider' at the 2013 World Travel Awards,
Datalex is a leading provider of ecommerce and retail software
solutions to the travel industry. Its customers use Datalex TDP to
maximize value from their complete retail brand experience. Datalex
is technology partner to some of the world's largest and most
profitable travel retailers. Its customers include Delta Air Lines,
Frontier Airlines, WestJet, Air China, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin
Australia, HP Enterprise Services, SITA, Aer Lingus and JetBlue.
Founded in 1985, the company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across
Europe and the USA. Datalex is a publicly listed company and
trades on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE:DLE).
About Internap
Internap is the high-performance
Internet infrastructure provider that powers the applications
shaping the way we live, work and play. Our
hybrid infrastructure delivers performance without
compromise – blending virtual and bare-metal cloud, hosting and
colocation services across a global network of data centers,
optimized from the application to the end user and backed by
rock-solid customer support and a 100% uptime
guarantee. Since 1996, the most innovative companies have
relied on Internap to make their applications faster and more
scalable. For more information,
visit www.internap.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
include statements related to the performance of our Internet
infrastructure services and the benefits that our customers may
receive from them. Because such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there are
important factors that could cause our actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These
factors include the actual performance of our Internet
infrastructure services; the reaction and behavior of customers and
the market to our company; our ability to react to trends and
challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; the
availability of services from Internet network service providers or
network service providers providing network access loops and local
loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party
suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable
terms, or at all; failures in or intrusions into our network
operations centers, data centers, network access points or computer
systems; our ability to provide or improve Internet infrastructure
services to our customers; and our ability to protect our
intellectual property; our ability to avoid infringing the
intellectual property of others; as well as other factors discussed
in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given
these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual
results. We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any
forward-looking statement for any reason.
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