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Published with the October 1, 2013 Baton Rouge Business Report. Copyright © 2013 Louisiana Business Inc. Special Advertising Section.
When hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in August 2005, businesses braced for the worst. What they got was a Category 3 storm bringing winds of 140 miles per hour across the state. A natural disaster causing more than $100 billion in damage, the effects were felt across data centers worldwide.
Data centers are the backbone of business. As IT infrastructures impact everything from sales and customer service to finance and marketing, reliability is often the difference between company success and failure. It’s estimated 70% of small businesses experiencing data loss will no longer exist one year later. Given the size and scope of disasters like Hurricane Katrina, those lacking effective disaster-recovery plans sadly became part of this statistic.
But one Louisiana-based company stakes its reputation on reliability—and offers the business-continuity, backup and disaster recovery services to prove it. For nearly 25 years, Baton Rouge-based Venyu has pioneered some of the first innovations in offsite backup. Initially founded to offer network security for law firms, Venyu was one of the first service providers leveraging virtualization as a disaster recovery approach. With more than 1,000 accounts today, Venyu is well-established as a premier provider of data center, managed hosting, cloud, virtualization and data protection solutions. It’s also one of only a handful of providers that successfully helped customers weather the disaster known as Katrina.
Analysts estimate data in large enterprises is growing nearly 60% compounded annually. With the complexity, size and scope of IT infrastructures, many no longer wish to incur the expense of maintaining in-house data and backup systems. To ensure reliability and availability of this complex resource, many are placing responsibility in the hands of companies like Venyu.
“Good data is at the center of any business success story. That’s why our customers need to ensure information is always safe in the event of an outage or disaster. At Venyu, protecting this mission-critical resource is all we do,” says Scott Thompson, chief executive officer of Venyu.
And this focus is paying off. Construction of Venyu’s expanded data center—the epicenter from which all customer information is stored and managed—is well underway. With more than 15,000 square feet, the operation boasts the newest in leading-edge power and generator systems, hot/cold air management, and systems infrastructure. This infrastructure also acts as the foundation for such customer offerings as VenyuCloud and RestartIT.
Perhaps that’s why market leaders like the New Orleans Saints, Habitat for Humanity, Dole and the Louisiana Technology Park all put their trust in Venyu. It’s also a reason the company recently picked up major excellence awards from editors at Network Products Guide and DataCenterDynamics.
And Venyu continues to enhance its offerings, signing new partnerships with Coretelligent and Alert Logic. These deals not only expand the company’s reach into new VC firms across New England and Canada, but also upgrade the company’s Security-as-a-Service cloud offerings.
Moving forward, the company dedicated to data will continue to honor this commitment. The market will see an addition of load balancing and service insertion into Venyu’s cloud-hosting platform, as well as an enhanced customer-facing management portal.
Continued Thompson, “Nobody does data better than we do. That’s why—despite a challenging economy—our customers continue to thrive.”
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