MCI Canada Enterprise Hosting Services support the rigorous requirements of large organizations seeking to safely deploy and maintain their mission-critical systems on the Internet with an integrated fully managed solution. MCI Canada’s services are the foundation for reliable, 7x24 operation of infrastructure, platforms, and storage systems. These essential Hosting services form an end-to-end management solution that includes systems administration, monitoring, security, and backup.

All networking, security, server, and software infrastructures for MCI Canada Enterprise Hosting Services reside in one of four state-of-the-art data centres. These centralized regional facilities - located in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region - each have high-speed Internet backbone connections and are maintained by local Verizon Business operations teams. Technical experts run the network operations centres (NOC), monitoring systems, call centres, and technical operations teams. Customers access MCI Canada’s experts and services through a 24x7 support centre, an award winning customer self-service portal, and client care teams. With MCI Canada’s Enterprise Hosting Services, you get industry-leading agility and responsiveness, and the data centre and Web infrastructure management expertise that only MCI Canada delivers.

Features and Capabilities

MCI Canada Enterprise Hosting Services ensure continuous availability, optimal routing, and secure delivery of data and information. For organizations seeking additional assurance for continuous configuration operation during traffic spikes, or in the case of a hardware or database problem, MCI Canada offers several High Availability services, such as variable scaling for Web servers or Dynamic Fail-Over options. In additional to platforms, infrastructure components, core managed services, and managed applications, MCI Canada offers services designed to maximize capacity efficiencies and performance of configurations. These Advanced IT Services include performance testing, multi-level security inspection, change management, content management, and results measurement services to help clients meet business goals.

Choose from three fully managed operating environments: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, or Sun Solaris. Your organization can supply your own new or used hardware, lease new hardware through MCI Canada for a monthly fee, or rent re-purposed hardware at a competitive price. These Managed Platforms are configured through MCI Canada’s hardened, automated, Internet-ready build process. In addition to hardware and operating system options, our MCI Canada’s Managed Platform includes Managed Storage, with flexible storage device options, such as direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks.

MCI Canada's Hosting Services offer an industry-leading choice of Web Hosting solutions, securely housed in world-class data centres across Canada. MCI Canada's Hosting services are directly integrated into Verizon’s global IP network, delivering optimal Web site performance and reliable access to millions of people at once. Verizon Business is the only provider recognized by Gartner Group as a leader in Hosting for the last three consecutive years, offering shared, co-location, dedicated, application, and streaming services. MCI Canada's IP experts will even manage your site, making it the most dependable way to do electronic business.

Certifications:

• BS 7799-2 Security Certification
  
  
• MS Gold Certified Partner
  
  
• Compaq SP Signature Certification
  
  
• TruSecure MSP
  
  
• Cisco Powered Network
  
  
• SAS70 Type II Audit
  
  
• SunTone
  
  
• SysTrust Certification
  
  
• E & Y Cyber Process
  
  

Benefits for Your Business

MCI Canada's broad portfolio of Hosting services delivers multiple options to meet your business needs, matching the ideal service that meets your current and future requirements.

When you rely on MCI Canada Enterprise Hosting Services, you benefit from:

• Business-Grade Services. MCI Canada Hosting solutions accommodate the requirements of both small and medium-sized businesses, scalable to support expansion of services
  
  
• Network Reliability. MCI Canada's Hosting solutions are a direct extension of Verizon’s wholly owned global Internet backbone network
  
  
• Simplified billing. MCI Canada's Hosting offers a predictable cost structure with monthly service fees, and known deliverables throughout the duration of the contract. MCI Canada offers an integrated solution with one service provider: MCI
  
  
• Faster resolution to problems. MCI Canada has experience with complex applications across a broad range of customers in every vertical industry
  
  
• Shielding from complexity. New technologies, upgrades, and versions are all part of MCI's fully managed solution
  
  
• Accelerated time-to-impact. MCI Canada’s joint product development initiatives with industry leaders such as Sun, Microsoft, and Oracle keep you up-to-date prior to new product launches
  
  
• Lower total cost of ownership. Leverage MCI Canada’s shared infrastructure, best practices, and industry leading technical talent
  
  
• Customer Service. MCI Canada's business-grade Hosting solutions offer the highest levels of service quality and customer support guaranteed by our unmatched Service Level Agreements (SLA), guaranteeing highly reliable network connectivity, minimum backbone latency, and prompt outage notification.