Verio, provider of hosting and managed services, announced today their 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Specialization Excellence Award in Advanced Infrastructure, focused on Hosting. An awards ceremony was held July 12 in Boston at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

July 27, 2006 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Verio announced today that it has received a Specialization Excellence Award in Advanced Infrastructure, with a focus on Hosting.

At the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, the company was recognized for excellence in delivering Microsoft-based customer solutions. An awards ceremony was held July 12 in Boston at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

“Recognition by Microsoft for our infrastructure and hosting solutions reflects Verio’s strong commitment to customers in providing the best Microsoft-based hosting and managed solutions possible,” Kiyoshi Maeda, president and acting chief executive officer for Verio, said in a Business Wire release. “Verio has consistently invested more resources in its Windows-based platform and solutions, and by giving our customers access to a variety of these solutions, as well as our own MultiSite services, we have seen great success and will continue to augment our offerings with innovative functionality for SMB and midsize enterprise customers.”

The award is based on a partner’s demonstrated ability to provide specific solutions within a specialized subset of Microsoft’s competency areas and solutions categories that represent a particular business practice area or partner business model.

For more on Verio visit www.verio.com.