Connectria Provides Sophisticated e-Learning Hosting For IBM and Goodyear
ST. LOUIS, MO (October 10, 2002) - Connectria Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract as a subcontractor to IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM) to provide sophisticated 24/7
hosting of a e-Learning environment for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) using Lotus's LearningSpace online learning product. This environment will leverage Connectria's advanced Internet and data center infrastructure, as well as its expertise in IT infrastructure technologies from Lotus, IBM and Microsoft. Connectria is a Premier IBM/Lotus Business Partner and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider.
About Goodyear
Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, Goodyear manufactures tires, engineered rubber products and chemicals in more than 80 facilities in 28 countries. It has marketing operations in almost every country around the world. Goodyear employs about 85,000 people worldwide.
About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and
Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or
equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers,
Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.
Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more.
Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients.
Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery,
remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more
information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at
www.connectria.com.
To learn more about Connectria or to receive a detailed quote on any of our services, please
contact us.
