IBS being the key company on the Russian market of system integration and consulting and Microsoft Corporation being the known world leader in producing software and development of Internet technologies have signed the Agreement on providing Internet access services to all applications of Microsoft (Microsoft Application Service Agreement). In accordance with the signed Agreement, the IBS company being a certified partner of Microsoft (Microsoft Certified Partner) receives the status of Application Service Provider (ASP) and the right to lease a wide range of software products produced by Microsoft via the Internet or virtual private networks. This agreement is one of the first ASP-agreements concluded by Microsoft on the Russian IT-market.

The Agreement signed between IBS and Microsoft Corporation on providing the Internet access services to the software has marked the next stage of promotion of the DATA FORT project onto the Russian ASP market.

 The signed agreement allows DATA FORT to install, to demonstrate, to distribute and to provide the Internet access to the main server and office products of Microsoft Corporation. Delegation of all the tasks connected with implementation, service and development of the information systems to the service partner, who DATA FORT is, allows customers to reduce the information technology costs, to release their resources from non profile tasks and to concentrate on the core business. At the moment DATA FORT disposes all necessary resources to provide services of hosting and leasing the applications:

• Internet Data Center meeting the highest international standards and connected to the global high-speed Internet backbone of Cable&Wireless as well as to the MSK-IX traffic exchange point ;
• highly-qualified staff having large experience and expert knowledge ;

Right now it is possible to order and receive the time-limited access to the mail services of Microsoft Exchange and office platform Microsoft Office XP free of charge in the section of “Demo Room”.