Virtela, the world’s
largest independent managed network services company, today announced that Flow
International Corporation is using Virtela to provide a fully managed wide area
network (WAN) that helps reduce the cost and complexity of running global
business.
Flow (NASDAQ: FLOW) is the world's leading developer and manufacturer
of industrial waterjet machines for cutting and cleaning applications. As Flow’s
business expanded globally, the company became strained by working with multiple
vendors to maintain a virtual private network (VPN) between its U.S.
headquarters and branch offices around the world.
The decision was made to
migrate to an MPLS network and consolidate vendors for greater simplicity and
cost-efficiency. Throughout a rigorous five-month selection process, Virtela
proved itself as the best option for global network services from a single
source. With Virtela, Flow now has a fully managed MPLS network that enables
communication between its sites in North America, South America, Europe and Asia
and easily scales to accommodate new locations. Flow’s network is backed by
follow-the-sun customer support from Virtela’s three global network and security
operations centers and the Flow IT team has complete visibility into network
performance through Virtela’s online portal, VirtelaView.
"Our enterprise
network is critical to enabling our business to compete on a global scale, and
we look to Virtela as a worldwide partner for our business, especially as we
evaluate expansion opportunities,” said Steve Bell, group manager for global
infrastructure engineering & datacenter operations at Flow. "Teaming with
Virtela has significantly reduced the complexity of supporting international
locations since we no longer have to manage multiple contracts from multiple
vendors in multiple countries. This allows us to focus on our core IT mission of
supporting the global business.”
Unique among network service providers, Virtela
intelligently routes customer traffic over its multi-carrier Global Service
FabricSM, which aggregates and integrates the best local, regional and global
networks to offer unparalleled resilience and geographic reach.
In addition to
MPLS, Virtela offers an extensive portfolio of managed services – including IP
network, security, remote access, device monitoring and management, and
application acceleration. Virtela’s carrier- and vendor-agnostic approach allows
customers to leverage the best-of-breed network services that meet their
specific price and performance needs.
"Virtela has helped us reduce our overall
infrastructure costs by enabling us to run video and VoIP communications over
one high-performance network,” continued Bell. "We’ve been extremely pleased
with the availability and uptime of the Virtela network. Another real strength
of the partnership is Virtela’s responsiveness, which gives us the ability to
able to add and remove sites very quickly so we can be more dynamic as a
business.”
"Especially as the economy shows signs of a rebound, companies
require network providers that truly act as strategic partners to help them
successfully expand while getting the most out of every network dollar they
invest,” said Vab Goel, Virtela CEO and partner at Norwest Venture Partners.”Our
partnership with Flow is an excellent example of how companies can achieve the
highest quality network service and support to seamlessly communicate between
their global offices while easing expenses at the same time.”
About Virtela
Virtela, the world’s largest independent managed services company, offers
award-winning managed services including MPLS and IP-based Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs), Security, Remote Access, and WAN/LAN Device Monitoring and
Management, to some of the most competitive multinational companies in the
world. Offering services in 190 countries, Virtela integrates and manages
best-of-breed service providers through partnerships with 500+ carriers, to
address the unique needs of its customers. Virtela is headquartered in Denver,
Colorado, with Global Network Operations Centers in Denver, Mumbai, India and
Manila, Philippines. For more information, please call +1 (720) 475-4000 or
visit www.virtela.net. About Flow International Flow International Corporation
is the world's leading developer and manufacturer of ultrahigh-pressure waterjet
technology for cutting and cleaning. Flow provides state-of-the-art
ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) technology to numerous industries including automotive,
aerospace, job shop, surface preparation, food and dozens more. For more
information, visit http://www.flowcorp.com/
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