Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a member of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, completed a 72-hour time frame of running the facility completely on the backup generator. This test was designed to simulate full normal utility power loss from the data center’s energy service provider. The 150KW, 336 gallon, diesel fueled, 3-phase generator…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, recently completed the physical and virtual move of its High Availability/Disaster Recovery infrastructure to the CU*Answers facility located in Kentwood, Michigan. Tim Kenney, Site-Four CIO said, “This important move allows Site-Four to take advantage of the physical security, redundancy, and…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a Yankton, South Dakota-based CUSO, is happy to announce that Shur-Co®, LLC has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. This three-year collocation agreement will allow Shur-Co to house their advanced backup solution in Site-Four’s state of the art facility in Yankton, South Dakota. Shur-Co is the…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO member of the cuasterisk.com network, is happy to announce that CU*Answers, a credit union core data processor, has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. The project is estimated to be completed by the end of 2016. This relationship will allow CU*Answers to further extend…
CU*Answers Network Services has organized and launched a new peer networking group for credit union technology professionals on the CU*BASE® core platform known as the CUSO Technology Users Group. The group exists to provide an open forum for the discussion and research of technology topics facing senior tech leaders in the credit union industry. The…
At its December board meeting, the Board of Directors for Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, approved a facility expansion project that would add 20% more space for the Xtension Contact Center. The project, which is expected to be completed by the end of January 2015, allows the CUSO to add more…
West Michigan-based CUSO CU*Answers recently announced its new OpsEngine brand. As a provider of data processing services to credit unions, the CU*Answers Production Center is placing a major emphasis on providing the technical components of data center operations to clients who own their own systems. With the OpsEngine brand, CU*Answers has placed a renewed emphasis…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, capped a busy year of core server technology deployments by completing two final 2014 projects recently. Both projects—a production and backup server implementation at Appleton, Wisconsin-based Prospera Credit Union and a production server replacement at Farmington, Utah-based Horizon Federal Credit Union—deployed new IBM i server technology that powers…
In an email communication from President Scott Collins to its eighty-three (83) owners, Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, announced that it has issued its third stock dividend in four years following its 2014 fiscal performance. The CUSO’s fiscal year, which ended on September 30, included record-setting performances in total sales, year-on-year…
CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned core processor to nearly 200 credit unions nationwide, announced their second Cost of Compliance Contest will officially begin on January 1, 2015. The initial contest was held earlier in 2014 and set credit unions with the task of creating a template for measuring expenses related to compliance. Sponsored by its…