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OpSource Delivers IT Infrastructure for Walden Media's Online Presence
Service Delivery Platform Ensures Reliability, Security and Lower Costs
Santa Clara, Calif., -- September 27, 2004 --Walden Media has selected OpSource, Inc., a next-generation IT infrastructure services company, to provide a full suite of managed services to support its online presence at Walden.com. OpSource provides Oracle database management, Linux system administration, network/security management, monitoring and performance tuning services. In addition, OpSource designed and built the infrastructure for Walden.com, enabling Walden Media to achieve one of its primary objectives, which is to deliver resources to parents and educators that will extend the film-going experience.
"In addition to making acclaimed movies, Walden Media is committed to fostering the growth of a community of educators who are developing innovative ways to use film in the classroom, and the Web is obviously central to this effort," explained Daniel Kim, Director, Web Development, Walden Media. "OpSource provides the technical talent and best-of-breed processes and procedures, as well as the 24x7 responsiveness that is necessary to ensure that our co-located Web sites and Web-based applications are reliable and secure, at a fraction of the cost we would incur to provide such services ourselves. We're confident that OpSource's comprehensive service offerings and depth of experience in administration, monitoring and performance tuning make them the right choice for supporting the infrastructure necessary for delivering our online resources to educators."
"OpSource has built its reputation upon our world-class service delivery capabilities," stated Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. "Walden Media's Web infrastructure is a critical link between the company and its customers. The decision to choose OpSource underscores the value of our Service Delivery Platform, which enables us to deliver scalable, high quality, cost effective services to our clients, so that they can ensure higher levels of customer service, improve efficiencies in Web operations and reduce costs."
About Walden Media
Founded by Cary Granat, former president of Miramax Films' Dimension label, and educator Micheal Flaherty, Walden Media creates films, television shows, books and interactive media that inspire, engage, enlighten and entertain. Walden believes that quality entertainment is inherently educational and can capture the audience's imagination, rekindle curiosity and demonstrate the rewards of learning.
About OpSource
OpSource, Inc. is a global IT infrastructure services provider that enables ISVs, ASPs, telecommunications and hardware companies to seamlessly and effortlessly outsource IT services delivery while simultaneously reducing costs and improving quality. The innovative OpSource Service Delivery Platform (SDP) empowers companies, for the first time, to significantly reduce costs, raise the level of customer service and improve ongoing operational efficiencies. The SDP can reduce operational costs well over 40%, ensure 100% SLAs and efficiently integrate legacy systems into a next generation IT architecture within 45 days.
OpSource provides turnkey IT service delivery solutions ranging from data center technical staffing, remote hands services, monitoring, and security, to complex managed hosting, application hosting, ASP infrastructure and complete IT outsourcing for Global 2000 companies.
The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with additional operations in the Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. metro areas, as well as international offices in London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit the company's Web site at opsource.net.
