To deliver hosting solutions to the federal market through viaVerio Government Partner Program; financial terms of the agreement were undisclosed.

Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications and a managed hosting solutions provider, yesterday announced it has formed a partnership with Optimus Corporation, a federal government IT contractor.

Under terms of the agreement, Optimus joins the viaVerio Government Partner Program and designates Verio as its premier managed services provider. Today, federal information technology officers are tasked with ever-growing demands and complexity around their IT environments, especially in the areas of defense, enterprise management and disaster recovery. Verio claims that it is qualified to advise integrator partners and federal agencies on compliance, complex storage and mission-critical security issues. Finanacial terms of the deal were undisclosed.

"Optimus is pleased to be working with Verio -- a company that shares our relentless commitment to customer excellence and premier performance," said Joe Whitney, Vice President Strategic Business Development for Optimus. "We`re confident that with Verio`s comprehensive line of managed hosting services, we can jointly deliver high-quality solutions that fulfill the complex infrastructure needs of the federal government community."

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Collaboration allows TeleHouse to offer its clients a cost-effective intrusion detection and virus propagation products.

TeleHouse America, a provider of colocation, peering, and communications solutions, and New York-based Cymtec Systems, a privately held, provider of network security systems and solutions for enterprise clients, today announced a new partnership.

This relationship enables both the parties to leverage each other`s strengths within a wide range of industry verticals, especially those facing regulatory requirements for data protection and continuity, while expanding branding, marketing, and sales efforts. Cymtec enhances the enterprise networks` defense via their Cymtec Sentry and Cymtec Scout software and hardware products, which present on/off-site and ASP options at an affordable price point. Collaborating with TeleHouse expands Cymtec`s market reach into a wider spectrum of industry verticals and potential clients, claims the company.

With this partnership, TeleHouse now has the ability to offer its current and prospective clients a cost-effective intrusion detection and virus propagation products that are easy to install and simple to manage. This provides yet another perimeter of safety to the secure environments that TeleHouse offers at its data centers and collocation facilities.

"Our goal is to present clients with cost-effective, best-of-breed options, like Cymtec`s products, that seamlessly integrate with the entire enterprise," said Atsushi Iizuka, TeleHouse`s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "This critical time of heightened compliance regulations and security requirements makes Cymtec a most welcomed addition to our business continuity-disaster recovery roster of products and solutions."

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Bolivia`s tax office SIN launched on Wednesday a new data center with an investment of US.65mn, SIN president Rafael Vargas confirmed to BNamericas.

The new center will control and verify 12 million receipts a day, compared to 4.5 million a day under the old system, he said.

The investment included US0,000 to upgrade infrastructure and security mechanisms and the investment in new equipment, most of it from Hewlett-Packard, was US.55mn, Vargas said.

With the new facilities, SIN is now able to cross-reference data with receipts going back five years, to have better control of such public documents.

Besides, the office will also be able to provide services more quickly, offering more taxpayers the possibility to use the internet to pay their contributions. "Right now we only receive online tax declarations from large taxpayers, but with these new facilities, medium-sized taxpayers will also be able to use this system," he added.

The new system also allows workers earning over 7,000 bolivianos (US3) to declare their contributions online. Through this system, companies download the software and distribute it to those employees earning more than this figure. Later, the company sends the completed information to SIN by email.

This data center is the culmination of an IT upgrade project that SIN started in 2002 and which considered investments of US.5mn-2mn a year. According to Vargas, the tax office expects to maintain this rate of investments over the next few years.

"We are working on a new billing project and about to launch another related to control at points of sale, which are the most important projects in the short term. We are also working on a three-year project to restructure IT processes and systems, which is expected to start mid-2006," he said.

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