Epicom Accelerates its Hosting Platform in Support of the SugarCRM Version 6.0 Upgrade

Sugar 6 is here and Epicom has announced its improved hosting packages designed specifically for SugarCRM users. Sugar 6 is easy to use and customize to your individual needs, while maintaining a powerful and flexible platform that grows with your business. To better support the new feature-rich software, SugarCRM gold partner, Epicom, has doubled the server resources of its previous memory, CPU, and disk storage. Epicom utilizes state-of-the art cloud-based servers housed in enterprise-grade data centers. In addition, they have upgraded to a new high-tech data center in Chicago with an off-site backup center in Texas. With better system management and increased security and performance, SugarCRM users will benefit by upgrading their hosting platform to better sustain Sugar 6.

Epicom builds, supports and hosts high-performance web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems for a wide variety of industries. Epicom’s hosting services offers customers a SugarCRM system that is secure, fast and customized to their business needs. The benefits of hosting the Sugar 6 software on Epicom’s hosting platform are the complete server, firewall, and application management of any size system, automatic SugarCRM upgrades and ability to deploy any SugarCRM customization or integration without compromising the security or performance of your system. Epicom’s Senior Software Engineer, Eric Wikman, emphasized the importance of having an adequate hosting platform for the overlaying instances that occur with Sugar’s new interface.

“Our hosting platform was built specifically for SugarCRM and we’ve done a lot of work over the years to provide huge performance gains and increase the speed for users,” said Wikman.

A unique feature of the new hosting platform is the high availability service, which eliminates any server downtime. In addition, Epicom’s strong, four method back-up policies, quick response and application of any security patches, and ability to integrate with third party systems allow the user to get the most out of their SugarCRM system.

Additional upgrades to Epicom’s hosting platform include moving to PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1, Ubuntu 10.4 and continuing its second year using virtual private server (VPS) web hosting. Utilizing VPS provides an additional layer of protection by housing each customer’s data in its own private space. By accelerating their hosting, Epicom is able to provide customers with the highest possible application performance, security, and flexibility, while allowing them to scale and grow.

For more information about customer relationship management and Epicom’s new hosting platform, please visit www.epicom.com.