Colo5 Selects FIS for Outsourced Facilities Management Services
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 30, 2010 – FIS™ (NYSE:FIS), one of the world’s largest providers of banking and payments technology, today announced that Colo5, LLC, has signed an agreement for outsourced facilities management services. Colo5 is a leading independent data center operator headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla. FIS will provide Colo5 with critical facilities management, infrastructure planning, project management, business risk analysis, vendor management and technical services as part of the contract.
FIS provides support for managing clients' operational facilities and environments at a level of experience and expertise that is best-in-class. FIS’ Global Commercial Services provides industry leading skills and scalability to meet clients’ day-to-day, as well long-term business needs. FIS helps organizations to be more efficient and effective in all areas of data center and facilities management, to ensure operational sustainability.
“The Colo5 team is excited to be able to draw upon the resources of an established global IT leader such as FIS to advise us in planning and executing future infrastructure growth,” said Colo5 CEO, Doug Recker. “Our team has devoted nearly two years to building out a first class data center that has attracted several of Jacksonville’s strongest companies as tenants that have nationwide, if not global, footprints. We felt we needed to surround Colo5’s customers with the best in facilities’ capabilities and readiness. Aligning Colo5’s facility with FIS’ best-in-class standards makes excellent business sense.”
“We are pleased to be able to provide a portion of our proven suite of ITO infrastructure, consulting and managed services to Colo5,” said Jerry Santillo, senior vice president and general manager, FIS Commercial Services. “FIS will support the high service level quality Colo5 delivers to its data center customers by providing personnel, management and technology planning to manage their Jacksonville facility. We look forward to assisting them in their strategy for continued growth.”
Colo5 is a leading independent data center operator offering secure and hardened collocation and data recovery services to customers nationwide. With over 140,000 square feet of dedicated facilities, Colo5 provides state-of-the-art security, redundant power systems, and a robust fiber network optimized for performance and speed to a host of demanding customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company's core infrastructure is rated to withstand hurricane category 5 forces to ensure maximum reliability and peace of mind. Colo5's data centers are designed to accommodate the changing power density and cooling needs of the collocation market while maintaining consistently superior levels of customer service and support. For more information on Colo5's data center services, visit
www.colo5.com.
FIS delivers banking and payments technologies to more than 14,000 financial institutions and businesses in over 100 countries worldwide. FIS provides financial institution core processing, and card issuer and transaction processing services, including the NYCE
® Network. FIS is a member of Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500
® Index and consistently holds a leading ranking in the annual FinTech 100 rankings. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., FIS employs more than 30,000 on a global basis. FIS is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the “FIS” ticker symbol. For more information about FIS see
www.fisglobal.com.