United Solutions Company, a credit union services organization based in Tallahassee, Fla., has selected iomart, a global data-storage and back-up provider, to address its customers’ “growing data protection needs.”
USC, which provides real-time core data-processing services for credit unions of all sizes and serves customers across 20 states, explained that to “enhance” its business continuity services, it needed more from a hosting solution than standard colocation or virtual platform management capabilities. As such, USC selected iomart to provide a “unique combination” of cloud-based disaster recovery and co-location facilities in its secure data center in Ashburn, Va.
Also, all the critical data needed to run its business in the event of a disaster has been replicated to iomart’s Tier 4 facility, which is located about 900 miles away from USC’s offices.
“There is increased pressure in the financial industry, at the state and federal level, to make sure we have fully-tested disaster recovery processes,” USC CEO Jim Giacobbe said in a statement. “As the auditors have stepped up their game, so have we. For us, back-up and business recovery is not just happy talk, it’s the real deal and we’ve got that with iomart.”
Giacobbe also said that it was important that their business continuity partner was an EMC specialist -- iomart provides a disaster recovery solution based primarily on Dell/EMC systems and storage, replicating critical data to both dedicated and multi-tenanted platforms.
“We’ve been with EMC a long time,” Giacobbe added. “So it was natural that we would look for a good, strong EMC solution.”
The infrastructure supports multiple systems, including IBM AIX, which are hosted and managed in iomart’s secure data center facilities.
Neil Johnston, group operations director for iomart, commented that “helping clients get to the cloud is what we do, but managing complex environments is what we do best.:
