SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- LookSmart (Nasdaq:
LOOK) today announced the availability of their new NovaTech
managed IT service, created to meet the growing demand for managed
services. NovaTech operates out of the company's Phoenix data center, that is part of a
strategic investment LookSmart has made in the Data Center and
Managed Service Provider (MSP) business.
NovaTech's combination of Managed Services, Specialized Hosting
and Private VPN services put it in the center of a growing MSP
market that is being driven by the scale and complexity of today's
network driven IT environment.
According to a recently released MarketsandMarkets report, the
managed services market is forecast to grow to $256 billion by 2018, up from $143 billion in 2013. Over the next five years,
it will experience a 12 percent compound annual growth rate.
"The recent trend in the industry shows that there is a high
demand for managed hosting services across every industry
vertical," explained the report's coordinators. "The implementation
of managed services reduces IT costs by 30 to 40 percent."
NovaTech's cloud based services include a private cloud
ecosystem comprised of multi-vendor enterprise technologies and
capabilities while serving as a production research and development
environment to support the needs of companies who need to scale
their IT operations quickly and securely.
"Social, Search, Mobile and Big-Data applications from startups
to enterprises can gain an operational advantage with NovaTech's
hyper-scaling expertise that can power an organization's most
critical data-intensive workloads at the intersection of this
generation's defining trends. LookSmart has achieved ROI
improvements of 200% to 300% by switching to NovaTech from previous
hosting providers. We invite CIOs to request a free consultation of
your IT infrastructure costs," said Michael Onghai, LookSmart's
Chief Executive Officer.
The increased volume and network complexity in today's IT
environment requires companies to architect, operate and manage
networks very differently. Business users, who have been influenced
by social networking, YouTube and the growth of mobility
application use, expect new offerings, which often introduce
sophisticated security issues and threats, according to a recent
report by ACG Research.
"The Data Center includes enterprise and carrier-grade managed
IT Operations. With the agility of a high-speed tech startup,
NovaTech can deploy and support robust advanced technology
capabilities for customer requirements, strategic relationships,
and partner engagements," said John
Raven, NovaTech's President and Chief Operations
Officer.
NovaTech's team of military veterans believes that managed IT
service security is critical for enterprises. Internal management
and monitoring of standalone systems have high costs and difficulty
staying ahead of an increasingly complex threat landscape.
If you are a CIO or a Private equity fund who cares about
improving the ROI on the IT infrastructure costs of your companies,
fill out the Contact Us form at http://novatech.io/contact-us/
About NovaTech, a LookSmart Company
NovaTech, a LookSmart Company, operates a cloud infrastructure
platform built for Internet scale. From its data center in
Phoenix, Arizona, NovaTech
provides managed IT services powering its clients' leading-edge
applications for customers ranging from Web startups to global
enterprises. NovaTech provides customers with a managed, on-demand
private cloud infrastructure, incorporating the efficiency of bare
metal and elasticity of virtual servers, storage, and networking.
NovaTech and LookSmart are teaming up with Private Equity and
Venture firms to inexpensively and efficiently scale their
companies' products and services without having to make the upfront
investment of time and personnel to achieve their goals. At the
same time, NovaTech is teaming up with several leading technology
vendors to provide enterprise-grade hardware, software, and managed
service capabilities to provide users with an environment to build,
test, develop, and deploy to a variety of environments. NovaTech
can help customers create and access public, private, and hybrid
cloud environments capable of supporting their most demanding
requirements. NovaTech's initial catalog of services includes
infrastructure as a service; self-service test and development
sandboxes; SSL/VPN connectivity for remote users; a large array of
physical infrastructure to support LAN/WAN topology test and
evaluation.
For more information, please visit novatech.io.
About LookSmart, Ltd.
LookSmart is a pioneer in online advertising. Founded in 1997,
LookSmart has been connecting advertisers and agencies to high
quality sources of inventory for performance marketing, and helps
online publishers monetize their inventory through our award
winning Ad Center platform. LookSmart's highly scalable technology
processes billions of search queries on a daily basis, enabling
marketers to bid in real-time across search and display inventory,
and leverage intent data to get performance that meets aggressive
campaign goals. LookSmart also operates Clickable.com, a
technology-enabled solutions company that uses social media data to
help some of the world's most valuable brands understand their
customer needs and improve performance, as well as providing a
technology-enabled services company that helps companies and
agencies manage their online marketing for themselves and their
clients. LookSmart is based in San
Francisco, California. For more information, visit
www.looksmart.com, www.clickable.com, or call (415) 348-7000.
Forward-Looking Statements
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subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ
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statements, including assumptions that may or may not be correct or
accurate due to the inherent uncertainty of future events, the
actions of third parties we cannot control or predict with
certainty, and other factors that may cause us to change our
plans.
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