DSM Awarded the State Contract for IT Disaster Recovery
Lakeland, FL. – July 22, 2010 – The State of Florida announced today that DSM Technology Consultants was among the firms awarded the state contract for Disaster Recovery Services. DSM is excited by the opportunity to use its proven disaster recovery methodology and data center network to provide state, county, city, school and university entities with a broader, more flexible and cost effective range of disaster recovery services.
During the extensive RFP process, DSM highlighted its unique value as leader in Virtual Disaster Recovery solutions, including hot sites, warm sites, cold sites and mobile sites. DSM has one of the largest data center networks and business continuity networks (500+ seats) in the state of Florida, which enables DSM to be a valuable resource for all state, county, city, school and university entities.
As the head of DSM’s Disaster Recovery practice, Mike McMillan responded to the award saying “Our team is excited that state agencies can finally benefit from an entirely new range of Disaster Recovery solutions that are flexible, scalable, reliable and most importantly, delivered at a fraction of the cost of that which was previously offered through the state DR contract.”
DSM provides enterprise class solutions utilizing the latest hardware and software to deploy personalized virtual disaster recovery. DSM uses its proprietary and proven Virtual Disaster Recovery methodology to develop for each agency a hybrid solution that can combine mainframe, legacy systems, hot sites, warm sites, cold sites and mobile sites. This hybrid approach to disaster recovery planning is entirely flexible and yields the most budget friendly options in this era of tighter budgets.
About DSM
DSM Technology Consultants is a Florida owned and operated technology consultancy that has a business model supporting the full corporate IT lifecycle. Its IT services are supported by leading practice areas of Disaster Recovery, SharePoint Service, Systems Integration, Virtual IT Services and one of the State’s largest and safest Inland Data Center Networks. DSM leverages these practices to help its client do more with less in the challenging business climate. DSM has been one of Florida’s premier technology innovators for 25 years. For more information about DSM, please visit
www.dsm.net or call
863-802-8888
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