CHARLOTTE, N.C. and TAMPA, Fla. -- Dec 3, 2004 -- Peak 10, the Southeast’s leading data center and managed services provider, today announced its customers experienced no service interruptions or downtime during the 2004 Hurricane season, which saw six hurricanes make landfall in the Southeastern U.S. The company’s data centers in Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. as well as Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C. remained fully staffed and operational, ensuring the availability and security of the technology infrastructure, data and business applications of Peak 10’s customers. The company also assisted businesses impacted by the storms with temporary data center space, Internet access and disaster recovery advice and counsel.
“We came through hurricane season a stronger organization with more products geared toward disaster recovery and business continuity,” said David Jones, president and chief executive officer of Peak 10. “I’m proud of our employees and the dedication and commitment they demonstrated this hurricane season on behalf of our organization and its customers.”
During the 2004 Hurricane season Peak 10 launched Recovery Express, a data, application and workspace recovery solution designed especially for small and mid-sized organizations. The service gives businesses access to space, bandwidth and hardware as well as mobile workstations complete with computers, telephones and satellite broadband access. In addition, Peak 10 announced the general availability of a fully-managed remote backup and recovery service which enables affordable, user-friendly, offsite data storage. Peak 10 also created an online disaster recovery resource center, containing Peak 10 announcements, weather information, links, and other disaster recovery tools and information including a detailed preparedness checklist and downtime calculator.
Peak 10 provides hosting and managed services to organizations throughout the Southeast. The company helps its customers maximize their technology investments and Internet presence through flexible, cost-effective and robust infrastructure management. Peak 10 specializes in disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that ensure availability, security and integrity of critical data and business applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Hurricane season on the Atlantic seaboard runs from June 1 to November 30. Six hurricanes made landfall this season including Alex, Charley, Frances, Gaston, Ivan and Jeanne. Four of these powerful hurricanes slammed into Florida, starting with Charley in August – a category four storm with winds of more than 140 miles an hour.
About Peak 10, Inc.
Peak 10 is the Southeast’s leading data center services provider offering a full range of hosting, storage, security and business continuity solutions. Customers such as RDU Airport, Global Knowledge, Ameristeel, LendingTree and Siemens rely on Peak 10 to keep business critical applications up and running around-the-clock. The company owns and operates five enterprise-class data centers that deliver a higher standard of infrastructure, security and performance to businesses nationwide. Peak 10 has data centers in Louisville, Ky., Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., as well as Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. Additional information about Peak 10 is available at www.Peak10.com.
