Pokemon.com Launches with Private Cloud Hosting at INetU

ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pokemon Company International (http://www.pokemon.com/), a worldwide leader in children's entertainment, has partnered with INetU Managed Hosting (http://www.inetu.net/) to launch their newly redesigned website using private cloud technology.

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To launch their new site, Pokemon knew that they'd need a hosting partner with the technical expertise to accommodate the new site, and the experience and dedication required to see the project through to completion. They turned to INetU.

"To ensure Pokemon.com became the immersive online destination that we envisioned for our fans, we knew we needed a technology partner like INetU to help us achieve our lofty goals," said J.C. Smith, The Pokemon Company International's Director of Consumer Marketing. "We would highly recommend INetU to anybody launching a mission-critical web project."

INetU adopts a customized approach to working with its clients, producing a Tailored Hosting Solution engineered by a certified team of hosting experts. The company assigns each client a Chief Hosting Officer (CHO) who understands the hosting environment's technical aspects and business goals. INetU's CHO for the Pokemon.com project, Chad Mowery, describes Pokemon's server environment as a combination of private cloud and dedicated resources.

"Pokemon has a number of servers running virtualization, producing a flexible cloud resource for the site. This is combined with a dedicated high availability database cluster and redundant network devices to ensure that the site is running at peak performance," explains Mowery.

Pokemon has successfully launched their redesigned site with their private cloud resource at INetU.

About INetU Managed Hosting

INetU (www.inetu.net) is a leading managed hosting provider serving customers worldwide. Dedicated to building long-term relationships with its clients, INetU supports many popular Web applications and provides highly reliable hosting for Enterprise Web sites in the Online Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, SaaS, Web Development, Education, Government, Consulting, and Non-Profit sectors. INetU recently scored a 96.5% customer satisfaction rating and is PCI, SAS 70 Type-II, and Safe Harbor compliant.

About The Pokemon Company International

The Pokemon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokemon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokemon website.  Pokemon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children's entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visit www.pokemon.com.

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