Connectria Opens World-Class Hosting Center With Deutsche Financial Services As First Customer
ST. LOUIS, MO (December 8, 1998) - Deutsche Financial Services (DFS), a division of Deutsche Bank AG, has
selected Connectria to design and host a sophisticated
Disaster Recovery solution for its distributed computing environment
using Connectria's newly opened world-class
hosting center in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Connectria will provide DFS a fully
redundant replicated server environment consisting of approximately twenty
IBM AIX servers and
Microsoft Windows based
servers that will enable DFS to be operational within 2 hours in the event of a disaster at their corporate headquarters in
Town & Country, Missouri. DFS will leverage Connectria's advanced data center infrastructure, as well as its expertise in
cost-effective IT Disaster Recovery environments.
Connectria's St. Louis data center was previously a US Government owned data center facility, which housed critical IT
operations and data centers for the Army Logistics Command, GSA and the IRS among other government organizations.
The building has since been privatized and converted into a "carrier hotel" to house data center operations of numerous
telecommunications carriers and IT service providers. The building has redundant fiber coming into opposite sides of the
building, three separate power feeds on three separate power grids, and generator backup for the entire building.
Since it was built, the building has never lost power.
Connectria's data center is protected by multiple layers of security including electronic building and facility access secured by magnetic locks, 24x7 security, monitored and recorded closed circuit television, person traps and mandatory identity logging of all outside visitors. Prior to being able to provide services to DFS, Connectria's data center passed a Level 2 Security Audit performed by the United States Federal Reserve.
About Deutsche Financial Services
Deutsche Financial Services (DFS) is a division of Deutsche Bank, AG, and is a leading provider of specialized financing and
servicing programs that facilitate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of technology products, consumer durables, and
industrial equipment. Deutsche Financial Services has operations across the United States and affiliates in Canada and Europe.
Deutsche Bank AG (DB) is a financial institution that offers a variety of investment, financial and related products and
services to private individuals, corporate entities and institutional clients around the world. As of year ended December 31,
1997, DB had assets of over $750 billion with operations in over 70 countries and 1,500 facilities worldwide.
About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and
Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or
equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers,
Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.
Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more.
Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients.
Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery,
remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more
information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at
www.connectria.com.
To learn more about Connectria or to receive a detailed quote on any of our services, please
contact us.
