Macquarie Hosting was chosen by Centricom to host POLi™, their online payment system, including mission-critical transaction applications and data

July 4, 2007 - (TopHosts News Brief) - Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom has won Centricom’s contract for hosting POLi™, its online payment system, including mission-critical transaction applications and data.
Macquarie Hosting was selected after a thorough analysis of hosting providers. Their proven experience with 100 per cent web-facing companies and ability to provide 24/7, secure availability of mission critical applications were key reasons behind the selection.

Macquarie Hosting will host POLi at the ISO and DSD Gateway certified data centre, the Intellicentre, in Sydney alongside sites for Federal and State government, national security agencies and major blue-chip businesses.
“This deal is the outcome of a review of POLi™’s future needs and its users’ expectations,” Simon Warner, managing director of Centricom, said in a company release. “Merchants and consumers quite rightly demand that an online payment system be hosted in the most secure of ways. And with the growth we expect from POLi™, we will need ever greater flexibility, agility and scalability.”

Centricom’s need to cope with unpredictable peaks in consumer demand that are inherent in the online payment industry were key in the decision to partner with Macquarie Hosting. The ability to scale quickly to accommodate predicted growth in the business was also important.

For more information, visit http://www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting or http://www.centricom.com.