March 27, 2006 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded Microsoft Gold certification and has become a Microsoft Gold partner. The award is made to companies showing “the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies”. 1&1’s partnership was based on competency in the areas of Advanced Infrastructure in web hosting, Sharepoint and Exchange solutions.
Microsoft Gold offers a rigorous certification procedure that has many elements including companies producing customer references. The benefits of certification for a company are numerous. “This partnership allows us to provide our customers with a wider array of software options and new technologies before it’s available to our competition,” explained 1&1’s CEO Andreas Gauger. “The added technical support coupled with 1&1’s expertise ensures that we will deliver the necessary innovative edge to enable our customers to operate successfully for the long term.”
1&1 delivers Microsoft hosting solutions through four different hosting packages and three dedicated server solutions. The company caters for a range of customers from beginners to advanced developer and caters for a range of business requirements.
