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MSI Opens New Data Center
December 9, 2005
Copyright 2005 The Daily Oklahoman
The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
December 9, 2005 Friday
City Edition
Myriad Systems opens data center as protected site;
Facility will safeguard information belonging to companyís clients
Jim Stafford, Business Writer
Another Oklahoma City alternative has surfaced to help corporations solve the
challenge of ensuring 24/7 access to critical computer data. Myriad Systems Inc.
has opened a data center in a new concrete 'safe room' at its headquarters at
2637 E Interstate 44 Service Road, offering Web hosting services, officials said
Thursday.
Myriad Systems is opening its data center only to the clients of the Web based
software and applications it provides primarily to the financial services
industry, said Shaun Riney, president. The company serves banks, thrifts,
universities and government agencies with a broad menu of software and services
that help in transaction, document and statement processing and mailing
distribution. Data centers offer Web hosting services where clients can
physically locate computer servers in an offsite location that feature redundant
telecommunications and power access in a climate-controlled environment. The
goal is to ensure clients always have access to their data. "Data security,
redundancy, availability and bandwidth are all important," Riney said. In
Oklahoma City, FullNet Communications and Perimeter Technology Center already
offer similar services in their own secure data centers. Another data center
built by MidCon Data is expected to open soon along the Broadway Extension in
far north Oklahoma City.
The market is far from saturatThe market is far from saturated, said John
Parsons, chief executive officer of Perimeter Technology Center. Corporations
are searching for solutions to protecting their data. "Demand is increasing
dramatically," Parsons said. "In the tier 1 cities, demand is so great they have
had to put customers on hold while they build new centers, and they've doubled
prices. It's just a sound alternative to keeping your IT structure in house. It
can be done so much cheaper in a commercial data center through economies of
scale." The company opened the data center with the recent completion of its
600-square-foot "safe room," Riney said. "The MSI Data Center provides greater
speed and security for financial institutions," he said. "But it is also
important to keep in mind that we built this safe room to be tornado- and
flood-proof. There is no safer place for sensitive financial information to be
than in the new MSI Data Center." Myriad Systems also is considering opening a
second data center in Texas, he said.
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