Digex, Incorporated the leading high-end managed Web and application hosting service provider for businesses worldwide, today announced that Geiger, the largest privately held promotional products distributor in the United States, has selected Digex to host and manage its extranet and product site.

Geiger develops and implements creative concepts and programs that help clients achieve their communication and marketing goals. As one of the leading promotional product distributors in the world, Geiger is renowned for competitively priced products of superior quality. Geiger provides access to more than 5,000 suppliers-in this country and abroad-who continually develop new and more sophisticated products.

The online GeigerMall features thousands of promotional products designed to stimulate ad readership, increase trade show attendance, encourage total quality, motivate employees, produce sales leads, enhance brand recognition, and more. In addition, Geiger is implementing virtual stores to allow their corporate clients to have e-commerce sites for their brand merchandising programs.

The company's site is built on a multi-server Sun UNIX platform using Oracle database technology and multiple failover managed firewalls. These are supported by Digex's industry-leading SmartServices, a comprehensive suite of managed hosting services with enhanced features for security, backup, reporting, administration, and monitoring. Digex SmartServices provides the highest levels of service for secure, scalable, high-performance Web sites and Web enabled business applications.

"As more and more of our business is being conducted online, we need a managed hosting provider that offers the experience, flexibility, and security we want," said Jo-an Lantz, Executive Vice President of Geiger's Promotional Products Group. "Our clients and our sales force expect our site to be up and running 24x7x365. With Digex as our technology partner, we are able to meet the expectations of those we serve."

"Companies like Geiger are able to leverage the capabilities of managed hosting to deliver promotional products and programs to their clients," said John Callari, senior vice-president of sales at Digex. "We are pleased to put the power of Digex managed hosting behind Geiger as they continue to develop innovative ways to provide their services online."