Interoute and eHosting provide hosting services to Deutsche Börse Systems in Dubai
Frankfurt & Dubai: 18 July, 2007 – Interoute and eHosting DataFort, two leading service providers for next generation telecommunication networks and managed hosting and IT security services in Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf region, announced that they signed an agreement with Deutsche Börse Systems.
eHosting DataFort is providing hosting services for the Eurex access point in Dubai. This includes infrastructure management of Deutsche Börse Systems IT systems using state-of-the-art facilities to ensure a reliable, efficient and high-quality customer focused e-Service. Interoute also provides Deutsche Börse Systems with international connectivity between Dubai and Frankfurt conforming to highest service levels, ensuring Deutsche Börse Systems a smooth operating and a maximum of network availability.
“Deutsche Börse Group is a highly reputable company in Europe and the world. Its choice of eHosting DataFort to support it in its entry into the Middle East is testimony of the fact that we have managed to create a great reputation for ourselves not just within the region but beyond it as well,” says Mohamed Fouz, Chief Executive Officer of eHosting DataFort. “Our role in assisting a Europe-based global company’s expansion into the Middle East region will further leverage our standing in the international market.”
”We are very excited to go along with Deutsche Börse in their market entry at Dubai, the booming metropolis of the Middle East. Deutsche Börse, as a key player in the stock market area, needs to exchange business critical information in a very timely manner between Deutsche Börse’s access point in Dubai and the headquarters in Frankfurt. By using our state of the art next generation network infrastructure and the Layer Two network connectivity we ensure that this happens in the right time and with the adquate service levels”, said Jens Leuchters, Country Manager Germany and Austria.
Matthias Kluber, Director of Deutsche Börse Systems states: “An entry into a new geographical and cultural territory is always a challenge and an opportunity. With the aid of qualified local partners we are well positioned in the market.”
About eHosting DataFort
eHosting DataFort has won a number of high-profile projects this year to deliver world-class hosting services to major enterprises. The company has a proven track record for managing backend IT infrastructure for several large organisations such as Emirates airlines, Standard Chartered Bank, Tejari, Arab Bank, du and Dubai e-government.
About Interoute
Interoute is the owner operator of Europe's most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 53,000 kms of lit fibre. Its full-service next generation network serves more than 12,000 customers from retail to aerospace, every major European incumbent as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for hosting content, providing wholesale transit services, corporate access or creating new services. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. More than €1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day, making Interoute a key part of Europe’s Digital Supply Chain.
About Deutsche Börse Group
Deutsche Börse Group is a leading service provider to the global securities industry with products and services for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire securities process chain from trading over clearing all the way to settlement and custody. Deutsche Börse Group is also a provider of IT solutions and an insourcing partner for the global securities industry as well as a leading provider of market data and analytics.Deutsche Börse Systems is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG. It maintains the world’s largest exchange network and builds, maintains and operates all of Deutsche Börse Group’s trading, clearing and settlement systems including Xetra and Eurex. With its high performance network, the Group connects some 2,000 market participants worldwide.
