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Workopolis Hires Q9 to Host Canada's Biggest Job Site
Toronto, ON - September 5, 2007 - Q9 Networks Inc. (TSX:Q), a leading Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure, is pleased to announce that Workopolis has selected Q9 to provide a high-availability data centre solution for workopolis.com, Canada's largest online job search and recruiting site. The site receives more than 3.3 million unique visitors monthly and displays more than 60,000 job postings daily.
Under the terms of the agreement, Q9 is providing a comprehensive infrastructure solution consisting of secure data centre space, highly reliable power and managed bandwidth services.
"Our business is our Web site and we can't afford any risk of downtime," says Gabe Mazzarolo, Vice-President, Technology and Chief Privacy Officer, Workopolis. "By moving our infrastructure to Q9, we get the security, bandwidth and facilities we need to seamlessly manage and grow our operations while significantly enhancing our ability to recover from a disaster. We also avoid the high cost of building and maintaining our own data centre."
Q9 designs, builds and operates its data centres to meet the most demanding IT infrastructure requirements, including the increased power and cooling demands of today's high density computing devices. Customers connect to the Internet via Q9's unique network and are protected by Q9's 100 percent, SLA-backed uptime guarantees on both power and network availability. Customer equipment and data centre environmental parameters are monitored 7x24 by Q9's Control Centre, staffed by experts versed in all aspects of IT and facilities management.
"Q9's data centre services enable enterprises to focus on their core competencies, reduce costs and provide high performance and reliability to IT users," says Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "We are very pleased to be assisting Workopolis deliver a quality online experience for its millions of visitors."
About Workopolis
Workopolis is Canada's largest and most popular Internet recruiting and job search solutions provider with over 3.3 million unique visitors monthly in Canada and twice as many job postings as the nearest competitor.
Workopolis provides a fully bilingual suite of award-winning applications, products and services to both large and small Canadian companies:
- workopolis.comTM, Canada's biggest job site-with the most jobs, visitors and employers of any Canadian job site Plus, intuitive screening tools and powerful resumé database search tools help connect employers with the 'best fit' candidates faster and more efficiently
- workopolisCampus.com, Canada's biggest job site for students and recent graduates
- CorporateWorksTM, Canada's most implemented recruitment management solution using the tools that power workopolis.com to power corporate career sites
Workopolis is a partnership of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. and Gesca Ltd., the newspaper publishing subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. Workopolis has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.
Workopolis is the exclusive Official Supplier of Online Recruitment Services for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is a leading Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9's data centres and network are backed by an industry leading SLA which guarantees 100% network and power availability. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.
For further information, please contact:
Kevin Spikes
Director of Corporate & Investor Relations
Q9 Networks Inc.
Toronto: 416-848-3311
Toll Free: 1-888-696-2266
media.relations@Q9.com
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