IceWEB Signs Agreement With Block Real Estate Services

IceWEB, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Computers & Telecom of Kansas City (CTC) has signed an enterprise business continuation services agreement with Block Real Estate Services LLC. (BRES) which represents the largest cloud services recurring revenue account in the history CTC.

“Block Information Technologies (a division of BRES) is responsible for all the technology and connectivity to BRES’ 22 million square feet of real estate under management in the Kansas City area,” said Rob Howe, CEO, IceWEB. “BRES has been a long-time customer of CTC’s, but this represents a quantum step forward in our business relationship in that it includes not only a private Layer-2 fiber connection (private network), but also hosting and additional wireless services. This is a true enterprise Business Continuation implementation that is a key part of Block Information Technologies’ far reaching strategy.”

“We chose IceWEB/CTC because of our long history of doing business together, their outstanding quality and keen understanding of what it will take to implement our strategy for our tenants, all with incredible speed to meet tenant demands. They have proven themselves over a long period of time, and most critically, they listen carefully and implement quickly,” stated: Doug Roth, director, Block Information Technologies.

Over the life of the partnership, IceWEB/CTC will install fiber services, managed routers, backup servers and storage, and ‘never fail’ BC automation. Their services will enable BRES employees and contracting tenants to haveresiliency for all critical business IT services, delivering near zero downtime targets.

“One of the major reasons we acquired CTC is its capability to quickly execute in these extremely difficult to achieve areas. BRES requires agile delivery of these highly complex cloud services, and it shows that as customers move to the cloud with high-speed Internet, we can do the job no matter how complex the requirements,” Howe said.