Kentuckiana Home Furnishings LLC Centralizes Information Technology Systems At Hosting.Com Data Center
October 4, 2005 - (Louisville, KY) - Kentuckiana Home Furnishings LLC has centralized its extensive data and information technology systems
in Hosting.com's fully-redundant, Louisville, Ky. data center.
Kentuckiana Home Furnishings' comprehensive managed hosting program allows the multi-million dollar corporation a
safe, secure and reliable solution that has included the installation of a Cisco-based IP telephony system to
manage the operations of a regional call center, infrastructure that allows real-time communication of billing
and delivery information, optimization of Microsoft share-point services allowing employees to
communicate through a company-wide intranet and storage of over 60 terabytes of data.
The managed hosting program is secured with Hosting.com's extensive hosted resources that provide
24x7x365 support and monitoring of the Kentuckiana Home Furnishings web based assets.
"Kentuckiana Home Furnishings has a highly optimized communications and IT infrastructure utilizing the internet for
critical business functions across multiple locations," said Jonathan Erwin, V.P. Sales and Marketing for
Hosting.com. "The company had a choice in providers and we are very pleased they selected Hosting.com to
provide their mission critical infrastructure."
Brad Gordon, Director of IT for Kentuckiana Home Furnishings LLC and President of Narthex Technology, a
Louisville-based technology company, expects to expand Kentuckiana Home Furnishings' presence in Hosting.com's data
center significantly over the next 3 years. Gordon asserted that "currently they are working to centralize the
IT operations for multiple Kentuckiana Home Furnishings stores and are expecting to bring the operations
for an additional stores to Hosting.com within the next 36 months."
About Hosting.com
Since 1996, Hosting.com, the First Name in Hosting, has provided award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.hosting.com or call the company at 800-446-7627.
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