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onramp colocation | case study | coastal securities

Coastal Securities Business Overview

Coastal Securities, Inc. is a registered securities dealer providing a broad range of professional investment services to institutional investors across the United States and around the world.

Coastal Securities is consistently a leader in the marketing of SBA loan and pool products and USDA loans.  Coastal is very active in the underwriting and sale of municipal bonds and also acts as financial advisor for many different political subdivisions.  Coastal has developed programs to provide a wide array of financial strategy services as well as assistance in reporting and accounting functions for its many diverse clients.

IT Challenge

Coastal Securities needed a secure, redundant and reliable facility to colocate their equipment in the event of a business disruption.

Solution

After years of utilizing OnRamp’s T1 services, Coastal Securities turned to OnRamp to help implement their business continuity plan.

“With our headquarters in Houston, we needed a business continuity site and selected OnRamp due to their ideal geographic location, professional staff, secure facility and broad suite of services,” said Senior VP of Information Technology William H. Latimer.  “Because of OnRamp’s expertise at every layer of Internet Operations, we were able to choose a solution in between Colocation and Managed Servers.  It’s because of the ‘in between’ that we selected OnRamp as our Internet Operations Company.”

Benefits

Customers like Coastal Securities can benefit from OnRamp’s customized Colocation, Managed Server and Disaster Recovery solutions.  OnRamp is the only Data Center in Austin and Central Texas to provide a single source for all of the services and complementary resources necessary to fully integrate your Internet Operations.  Because OnRamp’s enterprise team is experienced at application development, software/hardware configuration and system management, we eliminate the seams that exist between companies that only provide parts of the solution.  Customers depend upon OnRamp’s unique technical expertise, broad set of services and 24/7/365 hands-on support to supplement their abilities in order to reliably deploy every layer of Internet Operations.

onramp colocation | case study | M5

M5 Business Overview

M5 offers leading ISP’s, ESP’s, and Webmail / E-mail software providers a targeted, optimized advertising solution to improve advertising revenue streams for webmail traffic.

IT Challenge

With the impending launch of their new company, M5 was faced with the decision of whether to purchase and colocate or lease server equipment.  After conducting a thorough cost/benefit analysis, M5 came to the conclusion that the long-term cost of ownership was a more cost-effective solution.  The decision to colocate led them to search for a Data Center with the highest levels of security, redundancy, reliability, infrastructure and technical expertise necessary to secure their equipment.

Solution

The search for a Data Center colocation provider led M5 to OnRamp Access.  According to M5's Vice President of Development, “In addition to the security and infrastructure of the site, the most important factors in choosing a Data Center were customer service, cost and flexibility.  OnRamp provided exactly what we wanted.  Moreover, they were the most responsive, and easiest to work with on the terms for the facility.”

With the help and support from OnRamp’s experienced team of network engineers, M5 was able to quickly and efficiently move and install their equipment in to OnRamp’s Data Center.  “OnRamp provided exactly what we wanted in a Data Center colocation provider,” said M5 ’s Vice President of Development.  “In addition to OnRamp’s pricing and flexibility, we were impressed with the level of service, support and follow-up we received from OnRamp’s technicians and sales staff.”

Benefits

Thanks to OnRamp’s depth and breadth of capabilities, M5 was able to quickly and efficiently deploy their Internet Operations via a colocation solution.  Because OnRamp’s enterprise team is experienced at application development, software/hardware configuration and system management, OnRamp customers like M5 benefit from OnRamp’s ability to deliver a complete suite or “stack” of services.