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 location.

Tim Kenney, Site-Four CIO said, “With each planned event there are unplanned issues that help us harden the procedures and processes that are crucial to help ensure that our 64-plus serviced credit unions, crossing five time zones, are able to service their members during any scenario.”

As part of an ongoing business continuity program, Site-Four actively maintains a high-availability (HA) core-processing environment with real-time core processing data replication between identical servers located at two geographically dispersed, state-of-the-art datacenters. These HA rollover events, three to four a year, are scheduled to redirect core-processing and operations to the secondary/backup datacenter for range of 1-7 business days. At the completion of each event, core-processing is redirected back to the primary facility.