With myCOOP™, large and distributed businesses across the world can create business continuity plans and manage the response and recovery processes after major incidents. This includes the ability to manage the multilocation tasks of crisis-management and emergency-response teams.

Verizon Business Premium Data Center Services help enable COOP Systems to control its own infrastructure and maintenance costs and enable the SaaS provider to focus its IT resources on customer service and development of new Web-based continuity-planning features.

“Growing acceptance of on-demand services are fueling greater interest in managed service providers such as Verizon Business,” said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies Inc., a strategic IT consulting company, and the founder of the Software-as-a-Service and Managed Service Showplace directories. “This agreement is another example of how Verizon Business is expanding its portfolio of on-demand services and creating an ecosystem of SaaS vendors to meet the information technology and business needs of customers with global requirements.”

Verizon Business Data Center Services provide companies such as COOP Systems with 24/7 availability of a flexible and robust infrastructure capable of handling variable usage levels. As a Remote Backup and Restore customer, COOP Systems gains immediate access to bandwidth- and storage-efficient technologies including user-initiated restores via a Web-based management tool, automated over-the-network restores and daily backups for remote locations.

Alvord said his company, which has prospective new enterprise customers in Asia and Europe, may soon need to expand the number of Verizon Business data center locations for customers who prefer in-country data center availability. “With Verizon Business, we have a cost-effective strategy in place to meet our expansion needs without impacting our customers or our core business processes."

Verizon Business has more than 185 data centers in 22 countries and one of the most expansive global IP networks in the world.

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