Jersey City, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - November 1, 2006 - Tier-one colocation, dedicated data center, international Internet exchange and business continuity solutions firm, TELEHOUSE America, and IT operations management provider, Xceedium, have formed a strategic partnership to enable remote access to management dispersed data centers.

IT operations administrators worldwide, face the time consuming and costly task of managing several networks dispersed around the globe within a budget reduction environment. This increases the risk of security breaches and a lack of compliance with industry regulations. With incidents such as power, network and server outages and regulatory compliance issues occurring everyday, these have become top concerns at companies of all sizes; especially amongst the financial, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, bio-tech and legal industries.

Xceedium's GateKeeper appliance includes the following features:

* Effectively deploy data/operational center facilities to meet business continuity goals, while knowing security policies, management needs and compliance needs are easily met; this avoids building complex infrastructures supporting data center management that are costly to administer and maintain. * Efficiently and rapidly provision, support, and troubleshoot distributed computing/networking systems in a manner that minimizes down-time, is cost-effective and secure. * Provide easy and complete control for internal or external support personnel to all resources. * Easily manage multi-branded equipment across disjointed data centers and networks all with key stroke logging and auditing for compliance and reporting. * Enable roles-based secure access control that can enforce separation and segregation policies for administrators and scheduled jobs, supporting repeatable and auditable processes that meet compliance needs. * Effectively monitor business continuity facilities to ensure readiness in the event of disaster. * Complete enterprise-class functionality that supports a clustering architecture that enables a flexible centralized command and control management center that is highly scalable and readily available.

For example, an IT administrator can simply manage any infrastructure issues that arise with in-band networking, out-of-band networking, or power cycle from one location and simultaneously manage any components wherever -- even if he or she is as remote as a local Starbucks. Xceedium's GateKeeper provides the authorized professional with the ability to securely access several data centers at the same time from anywhere at anytime.

Masahiro Furuya, President and CEO of TELEHOUSE commented, ''Xceedium is a leader in next-generation IT operations management, offering customers military grade security and a simple, proven solution for infrastructure management. We are very excited to partner with Xceedium. They add value to our existing customers, enabling them to elevate their level of operational efficiency and security.''

Cheryl Traverse, President/CEO of Xceedium added, ''Our strategic partnership with TELEHOUSE allows us to provide our customers with a knowledgeable, trustworthy and reliable data center facility. By leveraging its easy-to-use system, we are able to make recommendations to customers on their data center initiatives by helping them reduce costs, comply with regulatory requirements and increase Service Level Agreements.''

Xceedium provides integrated systems with a centralized management interface for computing and networking resources, from anywhere, at anytime. The solution is designed to be client- less, agent-less, and rapidly deployable; providing a highly-secure and real- time operational framework for complete control across in-band, out-of-band, and power-on/off support needs. Xceedium's patented technology maximizes operational agility, increases service delivery, and enables auditable processes that support HIPPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, 21CFR11 and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). GateKeeper is Common Criteria Certified and FIPS 140 compliant, and has been successfully deployed in hundreds of data centers within large government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies. Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J.

TELEHOUSE provides carrier-neutral colocation space and services in power-protected environments, where clients can house and operate telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at TELEHOUSE's colocation ''meet-me-centers'' in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other TELEHOUSE customers. Among the many benefits of colocating with TELEHOUSE is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Additionally, through close ties to its sister companies in Europe and Asia, TELEHOUSE can provide continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent businesses around the world.

To learn more about Xceedium, please visit: www.xceedium.com.

For more information about TELEHOUSE, please visit: www.telehouse.com.