North Texas Real Estate Information Systems Installs New Data Center At Collocation Solutions

Don Frasier, co-founder and executive vice president of Collocation Solutions, announced today that North Texas Real Estate Information Systems (NTREIS) has completed the migration of their data center to Collocation Solutions' Dallas-based facility.

Jim Harrison, chief executive officer of NTREIS, said that the contract, originally signed in August of 2001, is a result of an internal re-engineering of the company's technology (IT) infrastructure. "We've streamlined and upgraded our legacy dial-up and frame network to a more diverse and accessible IP network, resulting in this new center which we will use to house primary IT systems and offer unmatched connectivity," Harrison said. "Accessibility and maximum up-time are, of course, a top priority for us, and our expectations were met and exceeded by the solutions they custom designed and built into our private data suite in a very short window of time." Harrison added, "In our world, down time translates into 15,000 real estate professionals being cut off from their business. Collocation Solutions helped us minimize that down time in the migration, and is helping us avoid down time as we have shut down the old network."

NTREIS' primary move occurred in November, and remaining portions of the legacy network have gradually been decommissioned as real estate professionals have been moved over to the new infrastructure. "In this case, NTREIS was looking for a high availability, off-premises solution for their primary IP infrastructure, not their back-ups," said Frasier. "However, their concerns are indicative of a trend we see towards higher security, greater demand for network availability and a diversification of risk through multiple data center networks. Disaster recovery and data security have never been more important to the IT professional."

Collocation Solutions is a privately held, build-to-suit telecommunication and data center infrastructure service provider. Founded in 1999, the company was formed to assist telecom companies, Internet service providers (ISP), application service providers (ASP), and enterprise companies in meeting their collocation and data communication needs. Collocation Solutions provides unbundled services in a carrier neutral environment with branded spaces engineered and constructed to the same high standards as large data center applications or switch sites. For more information, visit www.collocationsolutions.com.

Owned by 18 REALTOR associations in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, NTREIS maintains the property database for an area over 16,000 square miles with 15,000 subscribers, including 3,000 real estate offices.