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RampRate Bolsters Content Delivery Advisory Services With Appointment of Industry Expert Steve Lerner

Posted on: Monday, 27 March 2006, 12:00 CST

RampRate, Inc., the authority on Information Technology Outsourcing Advisory and Strategic Research, today announced the appointment of Steve Lerner as Practice Leader for Content Delivery and Content Management Services. Reporting directly to Tony Greenberg, CEO of RampRate, Lerner and his team will help clients efficiently and cost-effectively meet their needs for complex, dynamic, and high-capacity content delivery networks (CDN) services. Key service offerings will include web site delivery, streaming, downloads, digital rights management, secure file transfer, web analytics, and content technology applications. Additionally, he will manage RampRate Vendor Partners in the content delivery area.

"Steve brings a wealth of industry experience, strategic relationships, and leadership skills to the company," said Tony Greenberg, CEO of RampRate. "Steve's leadership in CDN and IT management has been a proven success in the media, entertainment, and high-tech industries. His knowledge of cutting edge technologies will allow us to advise businesses on new ways to improve mission critical application performance, while solving capacity and quality challenges. Additionally, his market experience will enable new business models for content owners a huge asset to the RampRate team."

Prior to RampRate, Lerner was vice president of media technology at Speedera where he built and launched one of the world's largest Internet streaming media networks. After building the streaming platform, Lerner became Speedera's vice president of operations and managed the entire CDN infrastructure. Speedera's clients included Sony, Microsoft, HP, Intel, CBS, Fox, NASA, NHL, and Amazon. Earlier in his career, Lerner was Global Network Manager for the Technology Education Network, an early streaming company that was acquired by Loudeye and held the position of senior digital audio engineer at Sonic Solutions, a Lucasfilm spinoff that pioneered the ability to edit high resolution sound on desktop computers.

Lerner also worked as a film sound engineer on "The English Patient," 1996 Oscar winner for Best Sound and Best Picture. "The English Patient's" sound was produced at the Saul Zaentz Film Center -- sound studio for "The Right Stuff,""Amadeus,""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "Apocalypse Now."

"I worked closely with RampRate as a former partner and saw how they sorted out a very challenging client procurement and vendor sales process," Lerner says, referring to his time at then-Vendor Partner Speedera Networks, which was acquired by market leader, Akamai. "RampRate has a unique ability to help customers with their technology needs, shorten the purchasing cycle, and structure better agreements. I'm excited to join the leading team that helps companies improve their outsourcing."

Lerner has an MBA from the Columbia University and University of California at Berkeley dual campus program, and completed a BA in Economics and the Electronic Sound Engineering Program at University of California at Santa Cruz.

About RampRate

RampRate is the authority on Information Technology Outsourcing Advisory and Research Services. RampRate's advisory experts work closely with tech savvy businesses to ensure their IT sourcing decisions are achieved quickly and affordably for a wide range of services including hosting, content delivery, streaming, telecom, messaging, desktops and bandwidth. By leveraging the company's extensive vendor portfolio and its data-driven SPY Index, RampRate is transforming the IT sourcing industry to reduce procurement costs and bring more value to both customers and vendors with significant cost and time savings compared to other sourcing providers. As a result, RampRate reduces the decision making time from months to weeks saving businesses on average 30 percent. RampRate's customers include CBS, Microsoft, Sony, Knight Ridder, Primedia and iFilm and dozens market leaders. Privately held, RampRate was founded in 2001 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif. with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Silicon Valley and New York. For more information visit www.ramprate.com.

 Contact: Donna Michaels Loughlin/Michaels Group (408) 978-3526 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=F04AE4AFF362B7AD  

SOURCE: RampRate

Source: MARKET WIRE

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