Verizon Statement

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement should be attributed to Jeff Nelson, vice president, global corporate communications, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

"Verizon is committed to supporting our HHS client and stabilizing their www.healthcare.gov website. Since HHS asked us to provide additional compute and storage capacity, our engineers have worked 24/7 to trouble-shoot issues with the site. 

"At the request of HHS's deputy CIO, we are now undertaking infrastructure maintenance, which should be complete overnight.  We anticipate the strengthened infrastructure will help eliminate application downtimes."

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SOURCE Verizon