Showing posts with label Columbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbia. Show all posts

Monday, 27 May 2013

Unitrends Partner, Immedion, Expands with New Facilities in Columbia, S.C.

Columbia, SC (PRWEB) March 1, 2010

Unitrends (http://www.unitrends.com), the leader in affordable, heterogeneous disk-based all-in-one data protection appliances, today announced that one of its managed services partner.s, Immedion, is using Unitrends data protection appliances for its newly expanded facility opening in the Columbia SCRA USC Innovation Center. This is Immedions second data center site and further expands its disaster recovery offerings and managed hosting services for businesses throughout South Carolina.

We continue to find Unitrends solutions to be the ideal fit for our data center services because they offer superior flexibility, reliability and cost, said Rob Moser, co-founder and chief operating officer, Immedion. When looking to expand into our new offices in Columbia there was no question that Unitrends would be a core component to our data center solution because their appliances support every type of operating system and application our customers have. Regardless of the customer environment, with Unitrends we know we can support it flawlessly.

The new Immedion site in Columbia will offer the same services as the Greenville headquarters with the goal of helping customers meet all of their IT Space, Server Power, Disaster Recovery and Regulatory Compliance demands. Immedions outsourced data center services and solutions help organizations lower costs, maximize internal resources and keep valuable information technology safe 24x7x365.

We are always pleased to be a part of the expansion of our partners, and its wonderful to do so when its helping businesses so close to our headquarters, said Mark Campbell, chief operating officer, Unitrends. Immedion is an impressive organization with a compelling set of services that small and medium businesses need. We are pleased that our technology is important to their success and growth.

About Immedion

Immedions objective is to keep customer business-critical data and applications available 100% of the time 24x7x365. They accomplish this by coupling a world-class data center facility and a strategic array of managed services developed to deliver the highest degree of reliability at a very competitive price. Since 2007, Immedion has been delivering fully redundant power, Internet bandwidth, cooling and humidity control to the Upstate business IT infrastructure. Customers leverage the Immedion enterprise level data center to minimize critical computer system downtime caused by commercial power outages, Internet problems, or other system failures. Immedion is headquartered in Greenville, SC. For more information please visit http://www.immedion.com, or contact Immedion at 864.908.3000.

About Unitrends

Small and medium businesses have the same critical reliance on the integrity of their data as enterprises, but often cant afford the operational expenditure of a dedicated staff or the capital expenditure of replacing their IT infrastructure. Unitrends provides enterprise-level data protection, at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, through a family of scalable disk-based data protection appliances that integrate and protect existing heterogeneous computer and storage systems through a single, intuitive, graphical user interface.

Unitrends uses a common backup and recovery engine for providing protection for over 100 different versions of operating systems and applications. This means you can support various versions of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Sun Solaris, Novell OES, Novell Netware, Novell GroupWise, Novell eDirectory, Linux, FreeBSD, Apple MacOS X, IBM pSeries/AIX, HP HP-UX, SCO UnixWare, SCO OpenServer, IBM iSeries/OS400, and SGI IRIX on notebooks, PCs, workstations, and servers and on DAS, NAS, or SAN storage all using a single backup appliance.

Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.

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Unitrends Partner, Immedion, Expands with New Facilities in Columbia, S.C.

Thursday, 28 March 2013

Columbia Pacific Advisors Selects SunGards Investran to Help Automate Partnership Accounting

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 20, 2011

Columbia Pacific Advisors (Columbia), a Seattle-based alternative investment advisor, has selected SunGards Investran to help automate partnership accounting across its investment portfolios. SunGards Investran is an award winning application suite that helps automate front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and other illiquid asset class investment firms.

Columbia chose Investran because it needed a solution that could accommodate its business growth without having to add additional staff. Investran will be used for deal management, investor relations, fund and investor accounting and flexible reporting. Its integrated solution suite helps eliminate disparate databases to help increase operational efficiency and achieve improved levels of scalability for growth. Columbia will access Investran through SunGards hosted Infinity* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model.

Utilizing SunGards Investran on a SaaS delivery model will help us better focus on the business of investment management instead of having to worry about managing reams of spreadsheets and issues related to software hosting such as upgrades, data back-up and disaster recovery, said Schuyler Havens, managing director at Columbia Pacific Advisors. Investran also gives us a proven solution with a reputation for reliability.

Like many investment firms, Columbia is looking to respond to growth by centralizing its workflows and keeping its staff count level, said Lauren Iaslovits, chief operating officer for SunGards Investran business unit. Investran will provide Columbia with a fully integrated solution to help improve firm-wide efficiencies, reduce operational risks and streamline operations.

SunGard Financial Systems is pursuing a visionary initiative to transform some of the key functionality of its core systems into components creating software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solutions. Leading this initiative is Infinity, which uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) development framework, offers a business process management platform (Infinity Process Platform) and a virtualized, on-demand delivery infrastructure.

About Columbia Pacific Advisors

Columbia Pacific Advisors is a premier alternative investment advisory firm located in Seattle, WA. The firm has deep international experience in real estate, public and private equity, distressed debt and special situation lending.

About SunGard Investran

SunGard Investran is an integrated application suite that automates front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms. Investran helps improve business efficiencies to facilitate collaboration, support deal flow and automate accounting. Firms rely on Investrans integrated capabilities to help meet their needs in the entire investment life-cycle, including relationship management, reporting, monitoring, accounting, fund raising and deal pipeline management. For more information on Investran and SunGards portfolio of alternative investment solutions, visit http://www.sungard.com/investran/learnmore.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

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Columbia Pacific Advisors Selects SunGards Investran to Help Automate Partnership Accounting