As part of an ongoing business continuity program, Site-Four, LLC actively maintains a high-availability (HA) core-processing environment with real-time CU*BASE® data replication between identical servers located at two geographically dispersed, state-of-the-art datacenters. Regular HA rollover events are scheduled to redirect core-processing and operations to the secondary datacenter (located in Kentwood, MI) for up to seven…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based core data processing CUSO, and Site-Four, the Yankton, South Dakota-based data center CUSO, recently assisted Cumberland County Federal Credit Union (Falmouth, ME) with the testing of the credit union’s business continuity plan. During the testing exercise, the credit union’s production workload from its primary server in Maine was rolled over…
As Houston, Texas-based Harris County Federal Credit Union began preparing for Hurricane Harvey’s approach, it called on two of its closest partners for assistance. Those partners—CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, and Site-Four, the Yankton, South Dakota-based data center CUSO—worked closely before, during and after the storm to execute the various phases of the…
Four CUSOs that are part of the cuasterisk.com network—CU*Answers, CU*Northwest, CU*SOUTH, and Site Four—recently launched a project to deploy new IBM servers in two separate data centers. Site Four’s production server, which handles the daily core data processing for the 70+ CU*NorthWest and CU*SOUTH credit unions from their data center in Yankton, is scheduled to…
On January 13, 2015, Harris County FCU of Harris County, Texas announced its business recovery and continuity partnership with Site-Four of Yankton, SD. Their planning paid off as hurricane Harvey hit Texas. On Monday, August 28, the credit union moved their operations from Texas to the Site-Four facility in South Dakota. A community support effort…
Headquartered in Yankton, SD, Site-Four LLC, a venture of the cuasterisk.com CUSO network, announced today the availability of its most recent SSAE 16 (SOC 1, Type 2) audit report. The audit was performed by Crowe Horwath LLP, a public accounting and consulting firm based in Oak Brook, IL, covering the period of October 1st, 2016…
Site-Four LLC, a data center CUSO, recently completed a live, four-day recovery exercise, providing CU*BASE® core-processing for 70+ credit unions from its high-availability data center located in Kentwood, MI. On the morning of May 7th, recovery teams successfully rolled production from systems at the primary data center in Yankton, SD, to the secondary site and…
In the month of November, Site-Four, a CUSO data center located in Yankton, South Dakota, successfully completed an extended run-test over a 48-hour timeframe running 100% on its backup generator. The test was designed to simulate full normal utility power loss from Northwestern Energy. During that timeframe, the CUSO experienced a variety of adverse weather…
Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com network headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, announced the availability of its SSAE 16 SOC 1 Type 2 Audit Report. The audit was performed by Crowe Horwath LLP, a public accounting and consulting firm based in Oak Brook, Illinois and covered the period of April 1st, 2015 to September 30th,…
Site-Four, a core processing data center headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, completed a 72-hour trial running 100% on the backup generator. This test was designed to simulate full normal utility power loss from the primary energy provider. The test was conducted from 8:00AM on December 15th to 8:00AM on December 18th. During that timeframe Site-Four…