ATLANTA, Sept. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Internap
Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance internet infrastructure services, today announced
CloudOption™, a high-speed direct connection that lets customers access third-party cloud services, including Amazon
Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Furthering its commitment to delivering superior levels of flexibility for customers,
Internap also announced it has achieved Open-IX OIX-2 Data Center Certification, the highest standard for carrier-neutral,
massive-scale network interconnection at data center facilities.
Organizations often encounter performance and cost challenges when attempting to share data between existing IT infrastructure
and external cloud services. Relying on the public internet for this type of transit can be expensive and slow, and present
unpredictable spikes in usage costs.
"Many of our hosting and colocation customers have existing cloud environments with non-Internap vendors and need the ability
to directly connect to those external clouds in a fast, cost-effective way," said Steve Orchard,
Internap's senior vice president and general manager of data center and network services. "While Internap has long provided
direct connectivity between our own cloud and other infrastructure services, our new CloudOption service allows Internap
customers to overcome key connectivity challenges of the multi-vendor cloud landscape. This, paired with Open-IX Data Center
Certification, reflects Internap's commitment to high-performance interconnectivity that expands the networking and
infrastructure ecosystem for our customers."
Internap's CloudOption service provides customers with a direct, flat-rate, secure connection to select cloud providers,
avoiding public internet and delivering superior route stability and no risk of packet loss. It allows for fast sharing of data
between external cloud instances and Internap's colocation environment, enabling organizations to send and receive cloud data
quickly and cost-effectively. Customers can manage the connection via their AWS and Microsoft Azure portals.
CloudOption's flat-rate billing makes budgeting easy and controls costs regardless of the amount of data sent back and forth.
This reliable, always-on direct connection enables customers to focus on core business issues instead of worrying about cloud
connectivity times, lost data and costly transit.
Additionally, as part of its continued strategy to offer flexible access to internet infrastructure, Internap has become part
of an elite group of data center providers to earn OIX-2 certification from the Open-IX Association. OIX-2 is a best-in-class
global certification for data centers looking to serve as carrier-neutral points of network interconnection. Internap's OIX-2
certification validates its ability to provide not only Performance IP™, Internap's flagship route-optimized
connectivity service, but also non-discriminatory access to all network providers. This further signifies Internap's role in
advancing OIX's mission of improving the global landscape of internet peering and interconnection, applying uniform,
cost-efficient standards of performance.
"Internap's OIX-2 certified data centers meet our most stringent standards covering Meet Me Room access, redundancy, power,
cooling, security and a number of other critical factors," said William Charnock, Open-IX
Association chairman. "In meeting these requirements, Internap represents the best of our collective efforts to overcome
connectivity challenges facing internet-oriented organizations everywhere."
CloudOption is available immediately to customers in Internap's Dallas, New York Metro, Santa Clara and Seattle data centers. Additional locations,
including Atlanta, are expected to be available by Q1 2017. CloudOption will initially deliver
connectivity to AWS and Azure, with additional third-party cloud services to be added. Open-IX OIX-2 Certification has been
completed at Internap's data centers in Seattle and Atlanta
locations, with others in process.
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About Internap Corporation
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 Statement:
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements related to
the characteristics and performance of our services and the benefits that our customers may receive from them and the expected
timeline for the availability of new products at new locations. 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 services; our ability to meet our
expected timelines for the availability of our new products; the reaction and behavior of customers and the market to our
services; 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, 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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