Houston Wire & Cable Taps Data Foundry as Disaster Recovery Provider
2006年11月8日 - 1:05AM
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Houston Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:HWCC), a major U.S. wire and cable
distributor founded in 1975, announced today the choice of Data
Foundry as their Disaster Recovery Services provider. Houston Wire
& Cable, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will house their
critical backup server operations in Data Foundry�s Austin Data
Center. Houston Wire & Cable provides a wide range of
specialized wire and cable products to over 8,000 customers in the
electrical industry. Houston Wire & Cable uses proprietary
applications and the Internet to allow customers to view online
product catalogs, inventory and pricing, request quotes, place
orders and track shipments via a secure customer portal. Through
this state-of-the-art order processing system Houston Wire &
Cable stands behind a 100% guarantee of order accuracy and on time
delivery to anywhere in the United States. Their ability to serve
customers at this pace is dependent on the constant, consistent
availability of critical server operations. �With 11 national
distribution centers, an inventory of more than 23,000 products,
and 95% of our customers receiving their order the same or next
day, our server operations are critical to our goal of providing
great customer service and quality products,� said Marilyn McMahon,
Director of IT at Houston Wire & Cable. "If there was even a
brief period of downtime in our inventory tracking, shipping,
purchasing, or any other critical systems, our process would be
compromised. This is why all of our systems, from our business
applications supporting billing and shipping, to our email system,
and even our LAN storage, are now safely backed up in Data
Foundry's Austin Data Center." Though Houston Wire & Cable has
always instituted a disaster recovery plan that enabled them to
fail over to a national provider, the events around Hurricane Rita
caused them to search out a regional recovery plan to supplement
the plan they already had in place. �Having a contract with a large
national provider just wasn�t good enough when it came to actually
implementing and executing the plan. We were concerned about
getting our people to the recovery location the national provider
chose, which could be as far away as Philadelphia. This was
impractical and would cause undue strain on our employees in an
already stressful situation. This meant that employees may be
separated from their families, who would likely find safety in a
more regional location such as Austin,� commented McMahon. "Houston
Wire & Cable is not unique in their concern about the ease and
practicality of their disaster recovery plan. We've found that
numerous companies are coming to us in search of a plan that will
keep their data safe in the region's premiere data center while
also allowing them to stay close to their primary site, thus
allowing their employees easy transition in the case of a
disaster," said Mark Noonan, Vice President of Data Foundry. About
Houston Cable & Wire Founded in 1975, Houston Wire & Cable
Company (NASDAQ:HWCC) distributes specialty electrical wire and
cable to the United States electrical distribution market through
11 locations in 10 states throughout the United States. The Company
offers products in most categories of specialty wire and cable,
including continuous and interlocked armor cable; control and power
cable; electronic wire and cable; flexible and portable cords;
instrumentation and thermocouple cable; lead and high temperature
cable; medium voltage cable, and premise and category wire and
cable. The HWC team is committed to providing great customer
service and top quality products - shipped correctly and on time.
Visit us at www.houwire.com or call 1-713-609-2100 for more
information. About Data Foundry Data Foundry,�established in 1994
is a provider of Disaster Recovery, Data Center Outsourcing,
Managed Data Center, and Business Continuity Work-Site Recovery
Services. We own and operate�regionally-dispersed, secure Data
Center and Work-Site Recovery�facilities�which provide 24x7x365
support from�state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers. As a
global provider of managed services, Data Foundry maintains and
monitors a scalable, redundant and highly available network
infrastructure.�Over 1000 corporate customers across
multiple�business verticals are currently utilizing our solutions.
Visit us at www.datafoundry.com or call 1-512-684-9000 for more
information. Houston Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:HWCC), a major U.S.
wire and cable distributor founded in 1975, announced today the
choice of Data Foundry as their Disaster Recovery Services
provider. Houston Wire & Cable, headquartered in Houston,
Texas, will house their critical backup server operations in Data
Foundry's Austin Data Center. Houston Wire & Cable provides a
wide range of specialized wire and cable products to over 8,000
customers in the electrical industry. Houston Wire & Cable uses
proprietary applications and the Internet to allow customers to
view online product catalogs, inventory and pricing, request
quotes, place orders and track shipments via a secure customer
portal. Through this state-of-the-art order processing system
Houston Wire & Cable stands behind a 100% guarantee of order
accuracy and on time delivery to anywhere in the United States.
Their ability to serve customers at this pace is dependent on the
constant, consistent availability of critical server operations.
"With 11 national distribution centers, an inventory of more than
23,000 products, and 95% of our customers receiving their order the
same or next day, our server operations are critical to our goal of
providing great customer service and quality products," said
Marilyn McMahon, Director of IT at Houston Wire & Cable. "If
there was even a brief period of downtime in our inventory
tracking, shipping, purchasing, or any other critical systems, our
process would be compromised. This is why all of our systems, from
our business applications supporting billing and shipping, to our
email system, and even our LAN storage, are now safely backed up in
Data Foundry's Austin Data Center." Though Houston Wire & Cable
has always instituted a disaster recovery plan that enabled them to
fail over to a national provider, the events around Hurricane Rita
caused them to search out a regional recovery plan to supplement
the plan they already had in place. "Having a contract with a large
national provider just wasn't good enough when it came to actually
implementing and executing the plan. We were concerned about
getting our people to the recovery location the national provider
chose, which could be as far away as Philadelphia. This was
impractical and would cause undue strain on our employees in an
already stressful situation. This meant that employees may be
separated from their families, who would likely find safety in a
more regional location such as Austin," commented McMahon. "Houston
Wire & Cable is not unique in their concern about the ease and
practicality of their disaster recovery plan. We've found that
numerous companies are coming to us in search of a plan that will
keep their data safe in the region's premiere data center while
also allowing them to stay close to their primary site, thus
allowing their employees easy transition in the case of a
disaster," said Mark Noonan, Vice President of Data Foundry. About
Houston Cable & Wire Founded in 1975, Houston Wire & Cable
Company (NASDAQ:HWCC) distributes specialty electrical wire and
cable to the United States electrical distribution market through
11 locations in 10 states throughout the United States. The Company
offers products in most categories of specialty wire and cable,
including continuous and interlocked armor cable; control and power
cable; electronic wire and cable; flexible and portable cords;
instrumentation and thermocouple cable; lead and high temperature
cable; medium voltage cable, and premise and category wire and
cable. The HWC team is committed to providing great customer
service and top quality products - shipped correctly and on time.
Visit us at www.houwire.com or call 1-713-609-2100 for more
information. About Data Foundry Data Foundry, established in 1994
is a provider of Disaster Recovery, Data Center Outsourcing,
Managed Data Center, and Business Continuity Work-Site Recovery
Services. We own and operate regionally-dispersed, secure Data
Center and Work-Site Recovery facilities which provide 24x7x365
support from state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers. As a
global provider of managed services, Data Foundry maintains and
monitors a scalable, redundant and highly available network
infrastructure. Over 1000 corporate customers across multiple
business verticals are currently utilizing our solutions. Visit us
at www.datafoundry.com or call 1-512-684-9000 for more information.
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