Relera opens data center in San Antonio, teams with MangedStorage

📅 April 5, 2001 - Relera Inc. (relera.com), an outsourced managed hosting and solutionsprovider, has announced the opening of an Internet data center (IDC) in SanAntonio. This center will allow companies in the San Antonio metropolitanarea to enjoy the benefits of outsourcing their information technology (IT)needs with the region's first technologically advanced IDC. Designed, builtand operated by Relera, the IDC will provide Silicon Valley-calibertechnology solutions to companies looking to expand and accelerate theirbusinesses.

Relera 's solutions provide a powerful combination of on-demand storage,intelligent load balancing, advanced caching, state-of-the-art security,24/7 support and industry leading infrastructure.
"San Antonio businesses now have an outsourced Internet solution in theirown backyard which was previously unavailable," said Cary Brown, a 12-yearIT industry veteran and director of Relera 's San Antonio IDC. " Releraoffers a combination of best-in-class products and services, guaranteedreliability and 24/7 customer support. These allow businesses to focus onwhat they do best instead of worrying about the complexity of maintaining anin-house infrastructure."
With significant investments in its infrastructure, Relera is providingindustry-leading facilities, including fully redundant power, cooling,physical security and on-site service to companies in technologicallyunderserved cities across the United States. Furthermore, Relera ispartnering with some of the industry's most prominent technology companiesto offer customers a comprehensive solution for outsourcing their Internetinfrastructure, thereby allowing customers to focus on their corecompetencies.
Further, a unique collaboration announced between ManagedStorageInternational and Relera to provide mid- to large-sized businesses asingle-source solution for all of their storage needs. Through thisalliance, companies in technologically underserved markets now have acost-efficient, reliable alternative to building and maintaining in-housedata storage resources.
As Relera 's primary Storage Service Provider (SSP), ManagedStorage ispackaging two of its premium storage solutions, PowerBAK Server Edition, atape backup service, and PowerNODE, on-demand disk "storage-by-the-slice,"with Relera 's comprehensive managed hosting solutions. Relera 'scollaboration with ManagedStorage is complemented by a variety ofvalue-added services, including enterprise-class co-location space,carrier-diverse managed bandwidth and fully redundant infrastructure forpower and environmental systems as well as security, caching and loadbalancing.
"Bundling these highly reliable, secure services is the most effective wayfor a business to employ top-of-the-line managed hosting and storageservices," said B.D. (Bill) Johnson, ManagedStorage's chief operatingofficer and chief technology officer. "In today's conservative businessenvironment, economical use of IT resources is a top concern for companies.This collaboration allows businesses to eliminate costly IT capitalexpenditures while reaping the benefits of high quality enterprise-classservices."
Relera will open 13 Internet data centers (IDCs) by year end 2001, in whichManagedStorage International will deploy its high performance datamanagement services, with the option to enter 12 additional Relera IDCs in2002. RELERA will integrate ManagedStorage's data storage services into itsinfrastructure as part of a comprehensive package of value-added services.