CU*Answers, located in Grand Rapids, MI, and Site-Four, located in Yankton, SD, have joined forces to extend operating capacity and capability through a co-located production center initiative. Says Todd Underhill, OpsEngine production center Operations Manager. “The operators at CU*Answers are now remotely performing Site-Four operational processing. This will be an ongoing, quarterly strategy that will…
At the 2015 CU*SOUTH Visionary Conference and Annual Meeting held on September 15-17 in New Orleans, attendees participated in a discussion and presentation on cybersecurity with guidance on mitigating cyber threats that impact the credit union industry today. As partners in the cuasterisk.com network, CU*Answers, CU*SOUTH, and Site-Four work closely to not only protect the…
Site-Four, a CUSO headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, and a member of the cuasterisk.com network, is pleased to announce the installment of Alan Rogers as the new CEO of Site-Four. Alan Rogers brings to Site-Four nearly 30 years of technical and management experience. Having serviced the financial industry for many years as a vendor, Alan…
Site-Four, a South Dakota-based data center CUSO and member of the cuasterisk.com network, recently completed a full system rollover to its High Availability and Disaster Recovery facility in West Michigan. This 3-day rollover exercise was a planned event to test the ability of offering full services from the newly established disaster recovery location. During the…
Site-Four, a data center CUSO and member of the cuasterisk.com network, has successfully performed a 24-hour test of its Jack Henry & Associates (JHA) EFT connection. Once the connection was rolled to its High Availability (HA) connection in Michigan, it was backhauled to the main facility in South Dakota, testing the ability to replace the…
Yankton, SD – January 13, 2015 Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com CUSO network, is happy to announce that Harris County Federal Credit Union has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. Site-Four’s state of the art facility offers the redundant capabilities for cooling, power, and communication sought after by Harris County FCU to…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, recently completed a full system rollover to its newly established High Availability and Disaster Recovery center in Kentwood, Michigan. This 36-hour rollover exercise was a planned event to test the ability of offering full services from the newly established disaster recovery…
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…