Dubai-UAE: 24 August, 2011 - eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region's leading managed IT services provider and a member of TECOM Investments, is providing a secure hosting environment for the newly launched Arabic website of the business publication, Forbes Middle East. The US-based Forbes magazine provides regional content from the website: www.forbesmiddleeast.com

eHosting DataFort provides managed hosting services to the publishing house from its secure data centres in terms of a robust and redundant IT infrastructure for hosting the website along with other services including managed security, backup, storage, monitoring and 24/7 technical support. The business publication relies on eHDF's IT infrastructure, as well as round-the-clock managed operations to offer latest real time updates to its vast online readership.

Hosting of the website with eHosting DataFort has supported Forbes Middle East focus on its core business of content generation.

Yasser Zeineldin, CEO of eHosting DataFort, said: "Availability of up-to-date information at your fingertips is crucial for readers, making it a key performance area for publishers in today's competitive market scenario. Companies are making investments in new delivery platforms for content as well as enhanced IT infrastructure that supports their growth. As digital media gets popular regionally and globally, continued access to online information becomes even more important.

With online readership increasing constantly, it is essential for eHosting DataFort to ensure round-the-clock support and operations of these online systems."

Forbes Middle East currently has 7,627 unique visitors monthly on its website with single page visits at 47 per cent. The average time spent on the website by users is six minutes. Presently, the business publication's website has readers from countries including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the US and India.

Khuloud Al Omian, Editor-in-chief, Forbes Middle East, said: "The website being hosted by eHosting DataFort, in the highly secure and stable data centre environment, played an important role in the success of the project. The service level agreement (SLA) with eHDF clearly focuses on ensuring very high availability of the website. With the new English website scheduled to be launched in 2012 and the excellent support and quick response time that eHDF offers, we are looking forward to launching high bandwidth content such as video and flash on our website very soon."

eHosting DataFort has established itself as a market leader in the field of hosting and managed IT services with its State-of-the-Art data centres, resilient and scalable infrastructure and round-the-clock managed operations. The company has been recognized for its Innovative Use of New Technology in 2009, Best Colocation Facility in 2010 and was also awarded the region's 'Best Managed Service Provider of the Year' in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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