Englewood, Colorado - November, 13, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced today that IDG’s InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT solutions management, has named Data393 in its annual Top 100 Most Innovative Corporate IT Solutions for 2006. Data393 was recognized for data center modernization that involved using DC power as part of its dedicated server solutions instead of traditional AC power.
As part of the award listing, Data393 was recognized as a "co-location and managed hosting provider [that] converted key hosting operations to run on DC power, thereby increasing server capacity while reducing heat load and boosting power efficiency as much as 20 percent."
“We are honored to be recognized among such an elite group of national IT companies,” said Data393 Vice President of Sales and Co-Founder Erik Porter. “Our use of DC power in our data center is just one of many ways that Data393 creates solutions to meet unique challenges for our own operations and our customers.”
To be considered in the InfoWorld Top 100, projects must stretch beyond the typical, off-the-shelf solution and must use multiple technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. Winners were formally announced in the Nov. 13 print edition of InfoWorld, as well as available online at: http://www.infoworld.com/reports/46SR06iw100.html.
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed services with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit: http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
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Englewood, Colorado - October 30, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced today an agreement with Denver-based Peerless Tyre to host a virtual private network (VPN) for 60 Peerless Tyre stores across seven states.
By deploying Data393’s virtual private network, Peerless Tyre employees can share sensitive data between stores and access company information and online tools that are protected by a firewall and other filters. A VPN encrypts data transferred from the user's location to the destination server, preventing third parties from intercepting data.
"Peerless Tire Company has come to depend on Data 393 for critical IT infrastructure due to their reliability and quality of their service and support,” said Tom Barclay, Director of IT Operations for Peerless Tyre. “With Data393’s virtual private network, we are confident we can protect our company and our customers from fraud and identity theft while increasing our ability to monitor our stores online accurately and reliably.”
“Peerless Tyre is joining a trend of businesses communicating to multiple locations without risking the security of its network,” said Lee Woodward, CEO of Data393. “In a world of viruses and hackers, implementing a firewall and a secure virtual private network are necessary to protect the information that drives business. Peerless Tyre is a fast-growing company and our ability to implement their solution on an as-needed basis will aid in their growth.”
Founded in Globeville, Colo., in 1949, Peerless Tyre has grown from a single tire store into a leading distributor of automobile tires, batteries and auto accessories, with 60 stores in seven states including South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Visit www.peerlesstyreco.com for more information.
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses support of a $38 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. For further information on Data393, visit: http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Oct. 20, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced today it has raised $22,000 to benefit former patients of Craig Hospital, a facility exclusively dedicated to rehabilitation and research for patients with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries.
The money was donated by 138 players who participated in the Second Annual “Links for Craig” Golf Tournament on Sept. 25 at Pinehurst Country Club in southwest Denver. The money will fund MyCraig.org, a website dedicated to providing information, resources, and access to other former patients of Craig Hospital via the Internet (www.mycraig.org). The funds also will help Data393 hire one former patient of Craig Hospital each year as an intern in web design and operations to assist getting them back into the workforce. In the last two years, Data393 has raised more than $45,000 to help fund MyCraig.org.
“We realized the hospital needed a method for tracking and maintaining alumni relationships, so we did what we do best: create and host a website specifically for Craig patients so they can continue to encourage and help one another after their stay,” said Data393 Vice President of Sales and Co-Founder Erik Porter.
Currently, 750 alumni of Craig Hospital actively use www.MyCraig.org as a source for getting information about the latest research that might offer a cure, for identifying activities in Colorado and the U.S. that are accessible to those with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, or for getting in contact with former patients that share common experiences. In 2005, Craig Hospital treated patients from 47 states.
“Craig Hospital is pleased to be part of this unique collaboration with a local business like Data393 in developing and maintaining a website that has become an important staple for fostering communication among Craig graduates and staff,” said Denny O'Malley, Craig Hospital's CEO.
In 2005, Data393 selected Craig Hospital graduate Troy Goulding as an intern to manage the newly developed MyCraig.org website. At age of 18, Troy was paralyzed from the neck down in a swimming pool diving accident. Through rehabilitation at Craig Hospital, Troy developed some use of his hands and arms. After years of remaining immobile and with little job prospects, Troy, now in his 30s, has earned enough money through his internship at Data393 to purchase a specially equipped van to give him the freedom to be mobile again.
“We are very fortunate to live in a business world that recognizes and values what is in your heart and in your mind rather than your physical strength, so the internship was a great way to complement MyCraig.org,” added Porter. “Data393 has benefited in so many ways by having Troy be a part of our team.”
“We want to grow the website and the internship program so we can continue to help Craig graduates like Troy,” said Clare Canny, Data393’s Sales Account Manager and golf tournament director. “Our goal for the mycraig.org website is to double its membership to 2,000. We want to ensure that every patient leaves Craig as a registered member and can start using its resources immediately.”
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $38 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit: http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Oct. 9, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced today that it has signed an agreement to provide Bonfils Blood Center in Colorado with Data393’s Metro Area Ethernet connectivity and colocation services through Data393’s facility in the Denver Tech Center.
This agreement allows Bonfils to leverage the consistently available infrastructure that they require as they communicate with their nine community donor facilities and more than 200 healthcare facilities in Colorado and beyond.
“We needed to expand our bandwidth to the Internet and to colocate key servers as part of our disaster recovery plan,” said Mark Thompson, chief information officer and Bonfils senior vice president. “Data393 has allowed us to do both with a single, integrated, cost-effective solution.”
Data393’s Metro Area Ethernet service allows companies such as Bonfils to take advantage of dedicated Internet access with speeds up to 100 megabits per second without the expense associated with traditional dedicated telco circuits. At the same time, Data393’s SAS70 Type II facility delivers Bonfils a secure, reliable location to house its disaster recovery equipment.
“We are honored to have the trust and confidence of one of Colorado’s most valuable and treasured organizations and truly appreciate their support,” said Data393 Vice President of Sales and Co-Founder Erik Porter. “Our infrastructure should be a valuable asset to Bonfils, one of the pre-eminent blood centers in the nation.”
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit: http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
Bonfils Blood Center supplies blood to more than 200 healthcare facilities and needs to collect 4,350 blood donations weekly to meet the needs of the community and to be prepared for any unexpected events. For information about scheduling a blood donation, please visit www.bonfils.org or call (303) 363-2300.
Press Contacts:
Data393: Marc Lumpkin, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com
Bonfils Blood Center: Julie Scott, 303-361-2873, Julie_scott@bonfils.org
Infoworld Article - October 6, 2006
Data393 Sr. Systems Engineer Steve Merkel contributes to Infoworld story on improving efficency in the data center.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/06/41FEgreendc_1.html
September 8, 2006
Data393 Sr. Systems Engineer speaks to HPCWire about how Data393's use of Rackable Systems servers to increase reliability and provide a more stable data center environment.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/872879.html
Irvine, California, and Denver, Colorado, July 17, 2006 - Greenlight Wireless Corporation is now hosting its Skweezer and Advertizer services through Data393, a leading managed IT infrastructure provider based in Denver.
Greenlight Wireless has seen rapid growth in the uptake of its Web-based services during the past several months, making a reliable infrastructure partner critical to the ongoing success of the company. Greenlight's Advertizer service, which provides mobile and desktop ads, has experienced a particularly significant surge in traffic and is currently serving over 100 million ads per month. Data393's proven ability to scale quickly and provide a top-quality complex hosting environment were key factors in their selection as Greenlight Wireless' new hosting provider.
“Greenlight has experienced impressive growth in web traffic and is the perfect customer to take advantage of Data393’s Complex Hosting services at our $30 million facility,” says Data393 CEO Lee Woodward. “Much of Greenlight’s rapid growth can be attributed to strong interest in mobile-friendly ads and through new click-to-call technologies. We’re pleased that Greenlight has selected Data393 as a hosting provider, and we look forward to fulfilling their future growth and scalability plans.”
By choosing Data393 to handle its complex hosting needs, Greenlight can successfully focus on the software applications that have made it an industry leader instead of diverting resources to handle server hardware, firewall, load balancing, data backup and system administration duties.
"We've been very pleased with the services provided by Data393," says Greenlight Wireless CTO Barnabas Kendall. "Both their infrastructure assets and excellent technical support are key factors to Greenlight Wireless providing fast, stable, and reliable service to our customers."
Data393’s 46,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, SAS70 certified facility is staffed 24x7x365. The data center’s redundant power systems and advanced environmental controls keep servers running at peak efficiency. A high-level of security is maintained through the use of access cards, biometric scanning systems, and video surveillance.
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering the services of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable collocation and complex hosting. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For more information, call 800-260-4843.
On the Net: Data393 site: www.data393.com
Greenlight Wireless is a leading innovator of wireless technologies, providing mobile solutions for enterprise-level businesses, Web portals, and wireless carriers. Greenlight Wireless' consumer-oriented Skweezer service optimizes Web content for handheld devices, providing a richer browsing experience and adding value to wireless data offerings. Greenlight's Advertizer product is a cutting-edge advertising program for operators, search engines, and publishers who want to monetize their content in the mobile environment.
On the Net: Greenlight Wireless site: www.greenlightwireless.net
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Contacts: Greenlight Wireless, Monica Sato, +1-949-421-1559 or at media.relations@greenlightwireless.net
Data393, Marc Lumpkin, Altitude Public Relations for Data393, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com.
Englewood, Colorado - July 12, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced an agreement with SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, to increase Data393’s Internet bandwidth capabilities tenfold, making Data393 one of the largest bandwidth providers in the western U.S. region. SAVVIS, based in St. Louis, Mo., has now completed the installation of two new 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connections at Data 393’s strategic Denver Tech Center location, enabling Data393 to provide enough Internet connectivity to facilitate the most demanding, high traffic web sites and Internet application service providers (ASP).
“This expanded network capacity from SAVVIS provides Data393’s customers access to a high performance data network with staggering amounts of bandwidth at cost-effective prices,” said Lee Woodward, CEO of Data393. “High traffic web servers and the new generation of Internet application service providers demand more bandwidth than ever. Our partnership with SAVVIS enables our customers to transmit images, video and data to millions of broadband Internet users, accommodating even the most bandwidth-intensive requirements of any customer and at unmatched prices.”
SAVVIS, which maintains its regional network routing equipment within Data393’s Denver Tech Center facility, has built a network which is the industry standard for performance and reliability. SAVVIS network solutions are unrivaled among telecommunication providers, offering five nines (99.999%) of reliability, integrated security, and tuning capabilities to match the unique needs of today’s applications.
“This agreement expands our relationship with Data393, creating one of the most powerful hubs in Denver for delivering a fast, secure network and scalable application services,” said Ron Dobes, General Manager - Network Products & Services, SAVVIS. “We look forward to working with Data393 to deliver reliable broadband services to Colorado businesses.”
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications. With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS has over 5,000 enterprise customers and leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach combines virtualization technology, a global network and 25 data centers, and automated management and provisioning systems. For more information about SAVVIS, visit: http://www.savvis.net
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit: http://www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
Press Contacts:
Data393: Marc Lumpkin, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com
Savvis: Carter B. Cromley, (703) 667-6110, carter.cromley@savvis.net
By Joyzelle Davis, Rocky Mountain News - June 19, 2006
Original URL - http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4784874,00.html
Photobucket's 19 million users upload 45 images each second, and those photos and videos have to be stored somewhere.
The Denver-based company splits its co-location between two services, Data393 in the Denver Tech Center and Switch and Data's Denver facility. In both cases, the two companies provide power, cooling and security at their own facilities while Photobucket takes care of its own equipment and software as well as its own Internet connectivity.
Demand from companies such as Photobucket that are seeking to outsource or back up their information management systems has helped fuel a resurgence in recent years for the Internet data center industry, which imploded in 2000.
The crash was exactly when Lee Woodward decided to start -Data393, though it was less a deliberate plan than an attempt to make the best of a bad situation. He already owned the co-location facility, located at Interstate 25 and County Line Road, whose major tenants were British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless and -Colo.com. When both of those companies declared bankruptcy and left the building, all Woodward had left were the keys and about $30 million in telecom improvements that his tenants had made.
As other data centers across the country collapsed into financial ruin, Woodward became convinced that the market would rebound once the surplus capacity disappeared. And the 56-year-old was looking for another challenge. He had essentially retired after he and his wife, Percy, sold their computer servicing and reselling business in 1996.
"In my previous business, I'd always taken for granted the underlying infrastructure," said Woodward, who co-founded Data393 with Erik Porter. "And that's exactly what people like Photobucket want to do is take us for granted."
Both Data393 and Tampa, Fla.- based Switch and Data, which has 34 co-location facilities nationwide, are "carrier neutral" facilities. That means they provide access to multiple Internet providers. Data393, for instance, sits atop fiber from seven Internet companies including Qwest, Time Warner Telecom and Level 3.
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Englewood, Colorado - June 1, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, today announced a new colocation agreement with Photobucket, the world's leading visual content hosting and publishing service, to locate a portion of the company’s data storage equipment at Data393’s $30 million facility in Englewood, Colo. Data393 will supply Photobucket with a data storage facility that includes power, cooling, and access to a 10 GigE Internet pipeline. Photobucket will use its own equipment and software, and Photobucket personnel will manage the company’s operations in the data center.
Photobucket provides a simple, fast, and reliable service that enables consumers to share and publish visual digital content online. Images, graphic art, and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site, including popular sites like eBay, Gaiaonline, Piczo, Blogger, LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace. By hosting members’ visual digital content, Photobucket relieves them of the investment and burden of owning and operating their own servers. Processing more than 50 billion image requests per month, around two percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, Photobucket’s rapid growth has led to increased demand for reliable connectivity and additional storage. A percentage of Photobucket’s Internet traffic is routed to Data393, and some of the images hosted by Photobucket are stored in its Englewood facility.
“We selected Data393 due to its capacity to handle large amounts of Internet traffic,” said Photobucket’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Darren Crystal. “This agreement gives Photobucket access to an additional secure data storage facility with room to grow. With its massive, redundant 10GigE Internet pipeline, Data393 is one of only a few data centers in the country with enough bandwidth to support Photobucket’s fast-growing business while ensuring we remain online and active.”
Photobucket has over 16 million registered members and is adding over 4 million new images daily (45 new images per second). It now ranks as a Top 100 site by traffic according to both Alexa and Nielsen/Netratings.
“We are pleased to accommodate Photobucket’s unique needs for their high traffic image and video hosting site,” said Data393 CEO Lee Woodward. “Photobucket’s selection of Data393 validates our technical capabilities and our ability to craft a solution that’s customized for their growth and scalability plans.”
Photobucket is based in downtown Palo Alto, Calif., with technology operations and development based in Denver, Colo.
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
Press Contact:
Data393: Marc Lumpkin, Altitude Public Relations for Data393, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com.
Photobucket: Atomic Public Relations, Mike Barash, 415-402-0230, mike@atomicpr.com
Englewood, Colorado - May 15, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, announced that it has completed SAS 70 Type II audit certification of process controls by an independent, third-party accounting firm.
With the completion of the SAS 70 Type II examinations, Data393 can help Internet colocation and managed hosting customers address their control requirements over the processing of financial data and other sensitive company information under Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX 404). SAS 70 certification enables Data393 to provide confidence among its customers and to further expand into the enterprise market by delivering certification of the controls needed for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley financial and accounting disclosure standards.
“SAS 70 Type II certification validates the effectiveness of Data393’s controls and processes and gives our clients the utmost certainty in our solutions,” says Lee Woodward, CEO of Data393. “Data393 has spent two years and millions of dollars developing procedures and facilities that allow us to be the most dependable IT service provider in the markets we serve. This certification is an affirmation that our investments and efforts have produced a tremendously flexible and reliable facility operated by a team of experts committed to customer service.”
SAS 70 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is the guidance by which service organizations can disclose their control activities and processes to their customers in a uniform format. A SAS 70 report is often used by customers and customers' external auditors to meet the requirements of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Data393’s audit evaluated controls related to service delivery and operations, infrastructure maintenance, customer implementation, change management, backup of programs and data files, and logical and physical data center access.
Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves. Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand.
For further information on Data393 and their product offering, please visit www.data393.com or call 800-260-4843.
Press Contact: Marc Lumpkin, Altitude Public Relations for Data393, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com.
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