Springboard Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Nando Media [2nd April 2003]

Cary, NC – April 2, 2003 - Springboard Managed Hosting, the Triangle’s leading Data Center and Web hosting company, signed a multi-year contract with Nando Media, the interactive media division of The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), one of the nation's top ten newspaper companies.

The McClatchy Company publishes 11 daily and 13 community newspapers, including the Raleigh based News & Observer. Nando Media, formerly Nando.net, was re-focused to serve as a central interactive operational hub for The McClatchy Company when it purchased the News & Observer Publishing Company in 1995.

Nando Media provides complete Internet publishing solutions and support for over fifty newspapers publishers, including, but not limited to, The McClatchy newspaper Web sites. With one hosting location currently in production in Sacramento, CA., the addition of Springboard on the East Coast was critical to providing stable, redundant hosting to Nando’s digital publishing customers.

Under terms of the new agreement, Springboard will provide Nando Media with a secure caged area with room for over 100 servers and bandwidth of 30mbps. From a financial perspective, Springboard’ s outsourced solution will save Nando Media over $100,000 per year versus the alternative of building their own data center.

“This is a significant win for us on several levels”, said Rich Lee, CEO of Springboard Hosting. “Nando Media is a recognized market leader in the web publishing space with a customer base that’s generating over 7.5 million page views a day. Moreover, we were the clear winner after they conducted a rigorous review process of competitive facilities and financial statements. This win affirms our belief that profitable companies with sound business models are being rewarded. Our competitors will continue to get penalized for their “build it and they will come” strategy, which we all know doesn’t work in today’s economic climate. ”

According to James Calloway, Business Development Manager of Nando Media, “Choosing the right local web hosting partner was a critical business decision for us. We evaluated each potential partner’s experience, technology, infrastructure, financial position, and perceived understanding of our business. At the end of the day, the fact that Springboard was profitable and had a more mature product offering was the deal closer over the other local providers.”

Springboard provides mission-critical infrastructure to over 190 Internet enabled companies, including fully-managed servers, enterprise backup, managed firewall and intrusion detection security protection and comprehensive 24x7 monitoring and management of e-commerce infrastructure.

For more information: http://www.springboardhosting.com

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David Chapman
919 Marketing
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