Hosted Solutions Selected By Quaero to Support Web Based Marketing System

Charlotte, NC, January 31, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas’ premier data center and hosting company, today announced a new addition to their high profile list of clients. Quaero, a Charlotte-based marketing and technology services company founded by marketing thought leader, Naras Eechambadi, has chosen Hosted Solutions Charlotte data center to provide services to support the company’s web-based hosted marketing system; Quaero SpringBoardSM.

Quaero SpringBoard combines industry-best technology, analytics and support services to provide a powerful solution for collecting and managing customer and prospect information and executing effective, measurable marketing programs and communications.

Hosted Solutions will provide high-availability bandwidth and 24x7 advanced monitoring of the Quaero SpringBoard platform – a critical segment of the company’s business. Uptime and redundancy are integral components of the Quaero SpringBoard business. “After a thorough analysis of Data Centers in the Charlotte market, we selected Hosted Solutions for their Dual Power Grid architecture, redundant infrastructure, and focus on security and process,” said Don White, EVP, Managing Director of Quaero SpringBoard.

“We are excited to have Quaero join our growing list of Charlotte data center customers. Their selection of Hosted Solutions’ $15 million data center further proves that ours is the premier facility in the Charlotte market,” said Hosted Solutions Charlotte General Manager, Gary McAuliffe.

Hosted Solutions’ full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully-Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and Management of e-commerce infrastructures.

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About Hosted Solutions
Hosted Solutions provides complete and customized managed and dedicated web hosting solutions to more than 350 clients. Hosted Solutions offers unmatched technical expertise in best practices and best-of-breed technologies as well as flexible and scalable packages and a la carte services. For more information about Hosted Solution's offerings contact sales@hostedsolutions.com, call 919-852-0690 in the Triangle, 704-423-9174 in Charlotte, or visit www.hostedsolutions.com.

About Quaero
Quaero is a marketing and technology services company that provides unparalleled value to firms for improvements in the effectiveness of their organization and technology investments. Leveraging Quaero’s proprietary MAST(SM) Marketing Effectiveness evaluation and Six Dimensions of Marketing Performance(SM) framework, Quaero’s clients gain remarkable insight into the performance of their marketing process, measurement and automation technologies. Quaero provides expert marketing database, campaign management and MRM technology implementation services. Quaero SpringBoard(SM) provides an easy-to-implement, low risk, web-accessed hosted relationship marketing platform for clients who prefer to outsource. Quaero serves hundreds of major corporations in the Financial, Travel and Leisure, Retail, Pharmaceutical/HealthCare, Publishing and High-Tech industries.

For more information, call 1-877-570-2199 ext 370, or visit the Quaero web site at www.quaero.com.

CONTACTS:
Quaero Corp.
Laura Hupp, Marketing Communications Director
(501) 217-3892
huppl@quaero.com

thE Connection, Inc.
Elizabeth Fairleigh, PR Agent
(404) 874-4562
Elizabeth@EConnectionPR.com