Skanska Honors Hosted Solutions with IT Vendor of the Year Award

April 01, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
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Skanska Honors Hosted Solutions with IT Vendor of the Year Award


Charlotte, North Carolina – April 1, 2006 – Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas’ premier data center and managed hosting company, announced today that Skanska USA Building Inc. has honored the company with its Vendor of the Year Award at the Skanska IT Vendor Summit in Charlotte this month. Skanska is annually ranked among the top construction firms in the U.S.


“We had very high expectations when we entered into our relationship with Hosted Solutions last year,” said Chris Stockley, Chief Information Officer for Skanska. “Their team in Charlotte exceeded our expectations on all accounts and we are pleased to acknowledge their exemplary services, support and state-of-the-art facility with this award.” In July of 2005 Hosted Solutions and Skanska announced that the two companies had signed a multi-year colocation agreement which includes up to 1,000 sq ft in Hosted Solutions’ Charlotte Data Center.


“Skanska’s Labor Day weekend data center move was an extremely complex undertaking and we are proud of our employees who helped make it a reality,” commented Gary McAuliffe, General Manger – Charlotte for Hosted Solutions. “It is exciting to be in a geographic area that is exploding with growth, particularly in the information technology community, and we are honored to receive this accolade from such a valued client.”


Hosted Solutions’ full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully-Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and Management of e-commerce infrastructures.


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About Hosted Solutions

Hosted Solutions provides complete and customized managed and dedicated web hosting solutions to more than 350 clients. Hosted Solutions offers unmatched technical expertise in best practices and best-of-breed technologies as well as flexible and scalable packages and a la carte services. For more information about Hosted Solution's offerings contact sales@hostedsolutions.com, call 919-852-0690 in the Triangle, 704-423-9174 in Charlotte, or visit www.hostedsolutions.com.


About Skanska USA Building Inc.

Skanska USA Building Inc. is a leading national and local provider of construction, pre-construction consulting, general contracting and design-build services to a broad range of U.S. industries including life sciences, healthcare, education, high-tech, aviation, transportation and sports and entertainment. Skanska USA Building also provides pharmaceutical validation services to clients. The company, part of the Skanska AB global group of companies, is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, and has approximately 4,100 employees.