February 16, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Q9 (http://www.q9.com) has been chosen to provide Wal-Mart Canada with a fully managed hosting solution, it was reported recently. Wal-Mart Canada's corporate website contains descriptions and pricing for more than 5,000 items available through the store. During peak periods, the site processes up to four million visitors per month. Q9's was chosen based on its ability to guarantees the “security, reliability and performance of the Wal-Mart Canada site on a 7x24 basis”.
"Wal-Mart stores nationwide serve more than one million Canadians daily," explained Wal-Mart Canada’s Director of Information Systems, Nicole O'Connor. "Making sure those customers are well served includes making certain they are well informed about our products, services and company programs. We need a reliable way to communicate to our customers online, and selected Q9 based on their ability to meet our high standards with their state-of-the-art facilities, technology and service."
"We are delighted to have been chosen by Wal-Mart, one of Canada's top retailers and a company that is known for striving to be the best in everything it does," added Q9 Networks’ CEO, Osama Arafat. "Our data centre services are designed with exactly this type of customer in mind. We look forward to providing Wal-Mart with the robust and secure infrastructure it needs to ensure high-availability."
Q9 Networks is a leading Canadian provider of outsourced data center infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9's data centers and network are backed by an industry leading SLA which guarantees 100% network and power availability.
