TAG Aviation And Marketocracy Spurn National Hosting Providers For Cary Based Springboard

Springboard Managed Hosting, the Triangle's premier Data Center and Web Hosting company, today announced that it has signed agreements with TAG Aviation, the worldwide leader in the delivery of personal air transportation services, and Marketocracy, a national company that uses the Internet to identify and recruit the world's top investors to run a world-class family of mutual funds.

Springboard will provide TAG Aviation with fully managed servers, enterprise backup, managed firewall and intrusion detection security protection and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of both companies e-commerce infrastructure.

Marketocracy.com was launched in July 2000 by distinguished mutual fund manager Ken Kam and Silicon Valley guru, Bruce Horn, a former Apple Computer software designer, and currently has nearly 50,000 members managing nearly 60,000 virtual mutual fund portfolios. Under terms of the agreement, Springboard will provide co-location services and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring to Marketocracy.com.

"With these two blue chip additions, along with the Fortune City Network out of New York, we are building an exciting coast to coast client roster," said Rich Lee, CEO of Springboard. "As we play on a national scale, we are competing with the major telecoms and national hosting companies. We are finding that Springboard's debt free position gives us a distinct competitive advantage over these well known, publicly held and heavily financed players with multiple, largely unprofitable data centers scattered across the country and abroad."

According to Ryan Clark, TAG's Manager, Information Technology,Frederic Senn, Director of Marketing for TAG Aviation, "Our e-business program includes a powerful Intranet network, and a sophisticated website with business tools to power our secure online booking and payment system, aircraft sales and marketing efforts, etc. We carefully evaluated the service offering, technology, technical staff and financial positions of nine other national hosting providers before selecting Springboard."

Robin Stevens, Vice President of Marketocracy concurs. " We were very diligent in our review process. Our members set-up and manage virtual mutual fund portfolios following the same rules and guidelines as professional money managers. Portfolios are tracked, evaluated, and ranked and the top-performing virtual managers will have the opportunity to become fund managers. They were the clear winner in meeting our metrics of a world class data center, hands on ownership team, and a deep bench of engineers to keep our network alive and running at peak performance 24 by 7."

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TAG Aviation And Marketocracy Spurn National Hosting Providers For Cary Based Springboard