PEER 1 Chooses Absolute Performance for Advanced Monitoring

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- PEER 1 (http://www.peer1.com/) Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX) and Absolute Performance (http://www.absolute-performance.com/), today announced the two companies have partnered to offer a suite of advanced monitoring solutions that will serve the growing needs of PEER 1's customers. The new advanced solutions, available this quarter, will expand current offerings and provide a 360 degree view of system and application health. Monitoring also offers in-depth analysis to help both customers and PEER 1 better understand and meet IT needs in order to reduce risks and costs, as well as create more efficient, profitable systems.

"We are excited to partner with Absolute Performance, a recognized expert in this field. Absolute's comprehensive monitoring solutions will greatly strengthen PEER 1's ability to exceed our customer needs," said Ted Smith, senior vice president of operations for PEER 1. "Absolute's commitment to reliability and quality service aligns with PEER 1's own belief in providing customers the right tools to keep their businesses running smoothly."

As an on-demand solution, Absolute allows PEER 1 and its customers to take advantage of economies of scale to enhance the value of their IT investment. The result is improved operational efficiency, application performance, network service levels and reduced operating costs.

"As the performance leader in hosting, PEER 1 continues to provide innovative solutions for its customers in delivering value-added application performance monitoring," said Absolute Performance CEO, Jerry Champlin. "Our capabilities enable customers to validate the performance of applications and service delivery in hosted environments, and dramatically impact time to market using the PEER 1 offering."

Through the partnership customers can choose the level of monitoring that best fits their business, from basic to full application monitoring, synthetic transactions and complete stress test tools. These comprehensive services will reach across IT monitoring, management and reporting stack, including server, OS, database and application monitoring, and management. These tools will help give customers more access and visibility into their system performance and capacity, providing vital data to make key business decisions such as when there is a need to scale and how to best plan for growth.

The demand for managed services continues to grow as companies increasingly rely upon constant uptime and highly reliable services to support critical applications and systems that support a business' viability. Having an expert partner such as Absolute to manage those systems, identify opportunities, predict challenges and help plan for growth is essential to the many PEER 1 customers with information intensive operations.

About PEER 1

PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides for its more than 10,000 customers. As a leading online IT infrastructure provider, PEER 1 offers a reliable high performance Internet network supporting scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting through the ServerBeach brand, and co-location solutions. Backed by its 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support(TM), PEER 1 ensures customers' online presence is always fast, always available. Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown to include 15 state-of-the-art data centers in North America and points-of-presence in Europe. The company's headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX. For more information visit: http://www.peer1.com.

About Absolute Performance

Absolute Performance, Inc., a leading application performance management service provider, delivers innovative products and services that help organizations get more productivity and value from their business critical applications, eCommerce sites and OnDemand application performance to end users. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Absolute Performance helps companies meet higher expectations for their end user experience. For more information visit: http://www.Absolute-Performance.com.