IO Announces Slate of New Customers for its Intelligent Control™ Platform

PHOENIX, Oct. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IO, a global leader in software-defined data centers, today announced new customers for its New Jersey and Phoenix data centers. By choosing IO, these companies gain a high-performance, cloud-ready solution that can scale quickly and is energy-efficient. 

IO's global Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) offering is driven by the IO Intelligent Control platform, consisting of standardized, UL-listed IO.Anywhere^® modules that are controlled by the IO.OS data center operating system, software designed to support next generation DevOps. The platform was designed to deliver superior business agility, energy efficiency, physical and logical security, and reliability than competitive offerings, while lowering cost associated with data center deployment and operation. 

The new IO customers at IO New Jersey include the following:

• MDAdvantage Insurance Company of New Jersey is a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance. The company is committed to advocating for physicians by supporting initiatives that increase patient safety and minimize the risks of liability, educating the healthcare community and investing in the future of medicine.
• Simpli Networks, LLC offers a wide variety of hosted services - from traditional web hosting solutions to highly available physical and virtualized platforms, powered by OnApp. Simpli Networks also offers a wide range of other solutions - such as enterprise-grade email and VoIP telephony to comprise a fully integrated solution for a "workspace in the cloud."
• viaPeople, Inc. is a talent management software and consulting services company. The company specializes in providing best-of-breed performance management, 360 degree feedback and succession planning products that offer flexibility, ease-of-use and simple implementation. Its customers select viaPeople over all others because they get "their process their way" easily, quickly and with superior service.

The new IO customer at IO.Phoenix is:

• bluemedia, one of the leading Arizona printing companies, and a large format digital printing company that sets the bar for quality and dedication. bluemedia delivers products from banners to building wraps, and fleet graphics to structural signs.

"IO welcomes these thought-leading companies to Data Center 2.0," said Peter McNamara, Executive Leader, Global Sales and Customer Operations, IO. "DCaaS provides customers the best of all worlds. It allows them to achieve cost, energy and operational benefits from IO hardware and software, with minimal capital expenditures, guaranteed uptime, and the ability to stay focused on their core businesses."

IO.DCaaS provides customers the agility to deploy data center capacity quickly that is delivered at secure, reliable locations, which have multiple layers of protection, and are backed with a 100 percent uptime SLA. It offers flexible deployment options, from a single cabinet in a shared environment to dedicated modules and infrastructure. IO provides carrier-neutral data centers with a choice of multiple telecommunications carriers and free cross-connects.

About IO

IO is a global leader in software-defined data centers and has pioneered the next generation of data center infrastructure technology. IO's integrated hardware and software data center technology platform offers enterprises, governments, and service providers an innovative way to deploy, provision, and optimize data center capacity anywhere in the world. IO technology lowers the total cost of data center ownership compared to traditional data centers, enabling dynamic deployment and intelligent control based on the needs of IT equipment and applications in the data center.

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