Plano, Texas — January 15, 2015 — VAZATA, a full service cloud infrastructure, managed hosting and colocation provider has announced it was selected by Innovative Business Software (IBS) to deliver the first-ever UL certified cloud-based security alarm monitoring product. The solution is hosted on the VAZATA vStructure™ Cloud IaaS platform and required VAZATA’s auditing support to obtain UL Certification for the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) based security solution. The VAZATA data center, where the services are hosted, underwent an audit and obtained the UL certification. VAZATA is the first ever, multi-tenant data center to obtain the certification. During the investigation, UL amended the required standard for compliance approval to include the power generation equipment (DRUPS) located in VAZATA’s Virginia data center called NoVa. Modifying set standards based on investigations are rare and has given VAZATA the distinction of being the first to modify such a standard.
IBS, a major supplier of Central Station automation software throughout the US and Europe, was challenged with finding a cloud platform that supported their mission critical applications while insuring availability, compliance and stability. VAZATA’s vStructure™ Cloud IaaS platform supports the mission critical application IBS delivers to security integrators, telecommunication companies, retailers, and cities throughout the Americas and Europe. VAZATA’s geographically diverse and redundant infrastructure assures the 100% availability required by IBS for their critical service delivery.
“We needed an IaaS provider that could support co-location and virtualization across redundant data centers and permit rigorous inspection by UL” said Jens Kolind, Vice President at Innovative Business Software, “VAZATA was the only provider that could meet all these requirements”.
VAZATA’s vStructure™ Cloud IaaS solution utilizes four basic layers: Data Center Layer, Network/Security Layer, Compute Layer and the Storage Layer that allows for a scalable, secure virtual environment that reinforces the network, hypervisor and storage layers with an industry leading 100% SLA. VAZATA was able to architect a solution for IBS and create a virtual environment while securing the first-of-a-kind safety-related UL certification required for IBS to provide central station monitoring in the Cloud.
“Innovative Business Software is a pacesetter in their industry and we are very pleased to be supporting them through our highly compliant cloud platform. We’re also thrilled to have distinguished ourselves in the UL certification audit, setting a new standard for others to follow,” said John Greenwood, EVP of Sales and Marketing at VAZATA.
SBN Cloud provides IBS’s well-known Central Station automation as a pay-as-you-go service. It enables customers to monitor premise locations for intrusion and fire, and offers integration to products such as video. The service is hosted on triple redundant infrastructure in two US based data centers more than 1,000 miles apart. Both have been approved for US government contracts.
About Innovative Business Software
Since 1981, Innovative Business Software has provided automation to central stations throughout the Americas and Europe. SBN, our flagship product, provides a complete integrated software suite for marketing, monitoring, billing, purchasing, and service. IBS customers rank among the largest in their respective geographical markets with several in the top 10 of the annual list of Top 100 security providers produced by Security Dealer Magazine. Millions of residential, commercial, and proprietary locations are secured by our software.
About VAZATA
VAZATA is a complex managed hosting, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and colocation provider serving Global 1000 businesses, U.S. Federal Government Agencies and Mid-Market Enterprises. The company, headquartered in Plano Texas, provides highly secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions that meet the challenges of its global customers using a proprietary cloud architecture called vStructure™. The vStructure™ IaaS platform allows for enhanced computing capabilities, accessibility, and fiscal viability in solutions designed to grow with organizations of all sizes.
VAZATA’s IaaS architecture supports customers in their hosting needs and also provides solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity for mission critical applications. The backbone of support is its purpose built IaaS supported by four world class data centers, which have all achieved FISMA and SSAE 16, Type 2 compliance. VAZATA’s data centers are located in Texas and Northern Virginia.
For more information on VAZATA, please visit www.vazata.com.
Contact Information:
Alma Coronado
marketing@vazata.com
6900 Dallas Parkway, Ste. 800
Plano, Texas 75024
214-302-0076