STRATEGIC PARTNERS
May 7, 2003
DALLAS -- Pulse EFT Association has lined up additional partners to help migrate its switch operation in-house.
Pulse is migrating its Houston switch platform and disaster recovery site from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to dual processing sites in Houston and Dallas that will be managed in-house. Pulse in November pulled out of a deal in which MasterCard International was to replace Chase as Pulse's switch.
(See related story Pulse moving switch operations in-house, with eFunds' help)
Collocation Solutions, a data center infrastructure service provider, will provide data center infrastructure for the secondary switch platform in Dallas. Both sites will be operational by November, according to a Collocation Solutions news release.
Warren Coles, Pulse's executive vice president of operations, said Pulse decided to outsource the secondary data center to provide a fast time-to-market solution.
"The traditional disaster recovery model of setting up a recovery site after an incident had occurred will be unacceptable in the future," Coles said in the release. "Pulse requires instantaneous fail-over to a duplicate system."
Pulse has also contracted with Paragon Data Services to assist in the management and coordination of the migration of the Pulse processing system and to implement a virtual private network.
The project involves connecting more than 130 data processing centers to the new Pulse system and network, according to a Paragon news release.
