LONDON, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Managed Hosting Specialist and Leading SaaS Player Combine to Offer 
Enterprise Customers One-Stop-Shop for SaaS and Cloud Solutions

NTT Europe Online (http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/) and OpSource, Inc. 
today announces an expansion of its strategic partnership to include 
comprehensive technical and operational support for businesses looking to 
deliver on-demand applications and services via the Internet in Europe. 
Initially focused on the US market (November 2008 
http://www.opsource.net/news/press/read_news.php?newsid=78),
the new strategic partnership will now see OpSource Application Operations
offered on top of NTT Europe Online' s secure managed hosting (
http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/managedhosting.html) and NTT's Tier 1 global
IP network (http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/global-ip-network.html) to
Enterprise customers across Europe.

A comprehensive, award-winning Web operations solution, OpSource
On-Demand(TM) enables SaaS and Web companies to deliver their applications
and services quickly and securely over the Web to consumers and businesses
alike. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, it includes the
application management, compliance and business services that are necessary
for on-demand business success. NTT Europe Online provides secure and
scalable managed hosting services to Enterprises globally and is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT Corp.),
one of the world's largest providers of telecommunications services.

The extended agreement represents a significant milestone as the
companies continue to experience growth in the adoption of SaaS and
Cloud-based solutions and seek to further capitalise on synergies between
OpSource's application operations and NTT's technical expertise and network
infrastructure, which extends to more than 150 countries worldwide. Today's
announcement also follows NTT(NYSE: NTT)'s recent investment in OpSource's
series "E" investment capital round.

Commenting on the partnership, OpSource CEO, Treb Ryan says: "The
extension of the partnership into Europe is a natural step for our
organisations and demonstrates our combined confidence in the global appetite
for SaaS and Cloud-based application delivery. NTT is one of the world's
leading telecommunications companies and its managed hosting infrastructure,
global IP network, and worldwide reach will continue to play an integral role
in our plans to expand our Cloud offering and grow our customer base."

Rob Steggles, Marketing Director Europe at NTT Europe Online, adds: "The
demand for Software as a Service and Cloud-based solutions continues to grow,
representing a significant opportunity for our ISV partners, as businesses
across the world look for ways to streamline and optimise their investment in
IT services. OpSource is a proven leader in the SaaS and Cloud space with
strategic ambitions to grow its footprint and we look forward to supporting
them and their ISV customers as both look to introduce innovative Cloud
solutions to Enterprise businesses across Europe and beyond."

About the NTT-OpSource Joint Solution

In order to accelerate the adoption of SaaS worldwide, OpSource
Application Operations and Business Operations services are now being offered
on top of NTT's managed hosting and global IP network. Highlights include:

Technical Operations
    
    - NTT's best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network
    infrastructure

    - NTT's world-class data center facilities

    - Redundant carrier class load balancing architecture

    - In-depth 24x7 monitoring, security, and management procedures backed by
    ISO27001 for Information Security Management

    - Built-in high availability solutions from simple clustering to
    wide-area disaster recovery

    Application Operations

    - Data management

    - Performance management, including multipoint user-experience monitoring

    - Application roll out and change management

    - Application optimization

    - Compliant infrastructure, processes and procedures including: SAS 70
    Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance and salesforce.com and 
    WebEx certifications

    Business Operations

    - OpSource Billing(TM) - An end-to-end subscription management, metering
    and payment stand-alone solution, or as part of OpSource On-Demand

    - OpSource Connect(TM) - A Web services infrastructure and integration
    toolset, for application integration in the "Cloud" and behind the 
    corporate fire-wall

    - OpSource End-User Support(TM) - 24x7 customer branded end-user support

    - OpSource Analytics(TM) - A real-time application and customer usage
    information, and health of business analysis and reporting tool



About NTT Europe Online

NTT Europe Online provides managed hosting, security and application
management services to businesses globally. These services provide the
reliability, availability, security and scalability needed to underpin
business success online.

NTT Europe Online is certified to ISO27001 for Information Security
Management and, as part of NTT Communications, has the global reach and scale
to support businesses of all sizes. NTT Communications is the global data and
IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph &
Telephone Corporation (NTT). For further information visit
http://www.ntteuropeonline.com

About OpSource

OpSource(TM) delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications
for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and
billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand(TM), the leading
Web operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By
choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are
freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure
and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead
focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications
and services. Further, by using OpSource Connect(TM) companies can leverage
Web services such as OpSource Billing CLM(TM), OpSource Analytics(TM) and
OpSource End User Support(TM) and integrate their applications with other
SaaS applications over the Internet as well as with enterprise applications
behind the corporate firewall. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies
at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has Web application
delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information
about OpSource, visit http://www.opsource.net.