Hostway Corporation, a Chicago, Ill.-based provider of enterprise class hosting solutions has reportedly announced the expansion of the product portfolio offered by its enterprise services business division by addition of new network services. The new network services group will offer IP transit, Layer 2 VPN, IPV6, distributed denial of service protection and customized bandwidth management solutions to new and existing wholesale and retail customers.

 

Hostway Corporation specializes in a gamut of services including domain name registration, Web hosting and ecommerce, colocation, managed dedicated hosting, SaaS (News - Alert) hosting, Web design and online marketing services. It boasts a customer base of more than 2 million businesses globally.

 

With the new services, Hostway will be in a better position to cater to corporations, government agencies and utilities, software-as-a-service providers, and other online application companies. The new Web hosting business team will concentrate on integrating hosted applications and cloud infrastructure with high-tech network and bandwidth management solutions.

 

“We’re excited about the potential of the new team and the implications for our existing enterprise offerings,” said Todd Benjamin, director of Hostway Enterprise Services, in a statement. “As more enterprise applications move to the cloud, offering our customers an end-to-end managed solution for hosted computing and bandwidth infrastructure will enhance those customers’ ability to increase performance, reliability, and affordability of their hosted applications.”

 

Hostway Network Services will be available immediately on Hostway’s fully redundant global backbone network, with points of presence in New York, Miami, Tampa, Fla. Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Texas, London and Amsterdam. Earlier this year, TMCnet reported that Hostway Corporation has reportedly introduced a new line of advanced server plans, powered by Intel’s (News - Alert) next generation processor technology, the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.