Sago Secures Atlanta Expansion
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Tampa, FL – June 2, 2008 *– Sago Networks, a 10-year old internet solutions company, is proud to announce Computer One, a 14-year old IT integration company joining Sago as its Professional Service Division. With this partnership, Sago Networks will combine Computer One expertise in systems integration, with Sago’s Data Center solutions.
This relationship will allow Sago to more effectively service their existing medium size and enterprise customers. The synergy of the two companies will provide customers a strong, stable relationship between network and integration that will build upon the experience of both businesses for customer service.
Miller Cooper, CEO for Sago Networks, and Jonathan Cox, president of Computer One, combine some of the best leadership and talent in the Internet Solutions industry to continue to provide peace of mind, support and mission critical infrastructure to their 3000+ combined clients.
Sago is committed to making sure their dedicated server clients, wireless broadband, collocation, and data transport products delivers value today and into the future. Computer One provides total solutions that go above and beyond software sales and system integration. As one of the largest Microsoft Gold partners in the Bay Area it has a track record of success and expertise in understanding the technology to provide the right solutions for customers. In addition to providing IT solutions, Sago operates one of the largest networks in the southeastern United States. With two wholly owned datacenters and direct fiber connecting to both NAP’s in the region, Sago Networks is poised to be one of the most diversified IT one-stop-shop Internet Solutions providers
"This partnership enables us to service our customers more effectively,"
said Miller Cooper, CEO, Sago Networks. “it brings a breadth and depth of systems integration and high-quality services expertise as a trusted advisory in the data center services space” he added. "Today's agreement enables us to build upon the years of experience the two companies have with managed service solutions to make sure our customers continue to be successful as we expand our business." John E. Cox founder and CEO of Computer One agrees. The two companies have shared mutual customers for different parts of their customers’ needs, and feel that the lines of communication and integration between companies are already well established.
Joining forces with Computer One provides our customers with the best of both worlds -- access to state-of-the-art data centers and managed hosting services while maintaining the value created by long-standing relationships and an extraordinary emphasis on customer service. Sago Networks will now provide excellence in all parts of the Data Center value chain – from complete data center design services to highly available, highly secure hosting, to delivery of cutting-edge solutions in areas such as availability, virtualization, disaster recovery, and data transport.
The alliance unites Sago Networks, a high-availability data center and IT managed service provider, with three office locations in Florida and Georgia with Computer One, a data center-focused provider of managed services and complex infrastructure.
Sago Networks and Computer one headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida.
*About Sago Networks*
Sago Networks is a world class Internet Solutions Company that provides services ranging from Dedicated servers, Co-location facilities, Fiber-Connectivity, Disaster Planning and Recovery, and Network Storage.
Sago owns and operates datacenters in Atlanta, Miami, and Tampa with interconnecting local fiber rings, countywide wireless network, and multi-homed carrier grade data transport services. By offering hosting and connectivity throughout Florida and Georgia with peering to multiple Tier 1 providers, Sago offers fast connectivity and low latency to all points around the globe. Sago Networks is online at: http://www.sagonet.com
*About Computer One*
Computer One, “Business Technology office” will enable you to focus on your business without the complexity of managing information technology and will provide you the technology tools and support to enable you to conduct business successfully. Visit our website at http://www.computerone.biz
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Sago Secures Atlanta Expansion
Southern Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced it has expanded its growing customer base in Florida and Georgia with the addition of Sago Networks, a service provider to high-data users such as ISPs and hospitals.
Sago Networks chose Southern Telecom to help expand its operations and reach in Atlanta, Tampa and Miami. The company has connected its Tampa and Miami data centers with its Atlanta data center via leased dark fiber from Southern Telecom. The added fiber provides Sago Networks highly reliable data center fiber connectivity allowing Sago further access to a number of enterprise buildings and healthcare facilities where it has customers to deliver increased services and further grow its presence in Florida and Georgia.
“We chose Southern Telecom’s dark fiber network to ensure the highest levels of reliability for our customers document security and to provide a robust network supporting our state-of-art data centers throughout the southeast,” said Miller Cooper, president and CEO with Sago Networks. “This relationship is ideal for both companies and allows Sago to continue providing exceptional service to the healthcare industry throughout Florida and Georgia. Our customers are increasing their bandwidth needs each day as their business grows.”
It was imperative that Sago have the infrastructure to exceed the demand of the growing IT industries in the southeastern United States. Since Sago services customers from around the globe, its datacenters must have the capacity to improve service to customers every day. Southern Telecom offers reliable long-haul/metro dark fiber, conduit, maintenance and collocation services throughout the Southeast. This is a feature point of a great network infrastructure, and Sago fits perfectly into the caste of an innovative Network service provider.
“Southern Telecom offers a robust long-haul and metro dark fiber network supporting secured facilities for enterprise data storage and disaster recovery,” said Ben Easterling, business development manager with Southern Telecom. “We are excited about our new relationship with Sago Networks and hope to enable them to grow throughout the Southeast ensuring the protection of their core data network infrastructure.”
About Southern Telecom
Southern Telecom is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company that provides long-haul and metropolitan dark fiber connecting Atlanta with other smaller cities throughout the Southeast.
The company also provides network elements such as rights of way, dark fiber, conduit, co-location and other related maintenance services. Southern Telecom is certified in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia and also at the federal level. For more information about Southern Telecom, please call (404) 506-5120 or visit www.southern-telecom.com.
About Southern Company
With 4.3 million customers and more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company is the premier energy company serving the Southeast, one of America's fastest-growing regions. A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are significantly below the national average. Southern Company has been listed the top ranking U.S. electric service provider in customer satisfaction for seven consecutive years by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Visit our Web site at www.southerncompany.com.
About Sago Networks
Sago Networks, headquartered and founded in Tampa in 1995, was designed as a total Internet Solutions company. Sago owns and operates datacenters in Atlanta, Miami, and Tampa with interconnecting local fiber rings, county wide wireless network, and multi-homed carrier grade data transport services. By offering hosting and connectivity throughout Florida and Georgia with peering to multiple Tier 1 providers, Sago offers fast connectivity and low latency to all points around the globe.
Sago has built a solid reputation by providing its customers, from individual website hosting firms to large government contracts, collocation and custom clusters of dedicated servers. Sago’s privately managed fiber and wireless networks provide the ability to reach out to customers and deliver them back to their secure data centers. By providing personal service, scalable enterprise configurations, and the capability to comply with the strictest government accreditations, Sago Networks has served the requirements of business, education, military, and local government for over 10 years. Sago Networks is online at www.sagonetworks.com.
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Sago Secures Atlanta Expansion
| Sago Networks, an Internet services company, has secured a long-term lease from Atlanta Gas and Light for a fiber optic ring throughout of the metro area of Atlanta. It will enable Sago to provide Internet access and transport services, along with other services to all major office buildings, shopping malls, hospitals and major developed residential properties, a release said. No financial details of the lease were disclosed. The Tampa company said it has already installed the fiber optic equipment on a majority of the network to create a 10Gbps redundant fiber ring. Sago is currently working to deploy the remainder of the fiber network throughout Florida as well. That is scheduled to be complete in 2007. The Atlanta fiber ring will also incorporate the firm's 100,000-square-foot Atlanta data center, the release said. Sago was founded in 1995 as an alternative to telephone and cable companies and other Internet companies. It operates data centers in Atlanta, Tampa and Miami and is diversified into many sectors, including commercial and multi-dwelling broadband access, transport services, co-location/data center services, back-up and disaster recovery, and dedicated servers. Click Here for the Original Article |
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1000 Servers Deployed in 30 Days It has been announced, that Sago Networks, a leader in internet services has mass deployed over 1000 servers with Linux, Windows and BSD distributions to a datacenter in less than 30 days.
According to Sago?s president Miller Cooper, This massive undertaking required all of our best technical to inventory, test, and install these servers. We know that without our certified technicians and their expertise, this would not have been possible. We are proud of our employees and we look forward to having all hardware immediately available to our customers.
Dedicated server customers and resellers have raised their expectations for server installations and Sago wants to have the hardware ready immediately when they order servers. The industry has always tried to make quickness and service major factors in improving companies? growth and efficiency.
Sago has taken steps to ensure that customers won?t wait to get a server by keeping all servers that are offered in stock and even pre-installed with operating systems. The U.S. has always focused on speed and service and more speed and better service, says account manager Sean Dodman. We are a U.S. based company and therefore we strive to be a leader in the U.S. and the world. Our employees care about being the best and we don?t back down from a challenge.
This was a definite challenge! says Sago technician KJ. We had to coordinate three shifts of certified technicians to test a thousand servers over 24 hours a day for 30 days. This averages 33 servers installed per day and with no outside contracted assistance. My wife is just glad it?s over, so I can come home and catch up with work on the house.
These 1000 server are now ready to meet the increasing demand for Sago Networks dedicated servers. The servers are expected to meet the demand from small businesses up to large Fortune 500 companies for web hosting, backup, and countless other internet solutions and services
About Sago Networks
Sago Networks was founded as an alternative to the telephone and cable company monopolies and inefficient Internet companies. Its mission is to be a one-stop shop for all of its customers' bandwidth and custom telecommunications needs. The company also believes in providing a laser-like focus on customer service and, from its headquarters in the Tampa Bay area and satellite offices in Miami and Atlanta, has implemented multiple rapidly deployable, high-speed fiber and wireless networks and maintains one of the largest bandwidth datacenters in the country.
Sago Networks is headquartered in its own company owned 82,000 square foot telecommunications center in Tampa, Florida. Sago's business breaks down into four categories: Wireless Broadband Access, Colocation/Data Center Services, IP transport and Dedicated Servers. Sago Networks proudly provides its network infrastructure and data center management capabilities to be the Internet Solutions Company for all it?s customers needs. Click Here for the Original Article |
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