abeo Taps Consonus for Co-Location in Utah Data Center
Consonus Key Component of Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Country's 2nd-Largest Anesthesiology Billing and Practice Management Company
CARY, NC — 4 March 2009 — Consonus today announced that it will provide co-location services for medical billing services conglomerate abeo. As a key component of abeo's disaster recovery strategy, Consonus will host the company's mission-critical data and IT equipment at its South Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
abeo offers medical billing services, practice management, and software for the anesthesia niche of the medical industry through facilities in Ft. Worth, Texas, Salt Lake City, Utah, Pasadena, California, and other satellite locations.
A national data center and managed services provider, Consonus serves its customers through three data center facilities in Utah and several others across the country including Colorado, Massachusetts, and Ohio. Consonus opened its newest facility — Presidential Data Center — in Utah in April of 2008, and recently boosted its disaster recovery capacity with a new data center in North Carolina.
"When we heard how highly Consonus' data center customers regard the company's capabilities, coverage, and expertise, we naturally chose them for the co-location component of our disaster recovery strategy," said Phil Warenik, Chief Information Officer of abeo. "Our anesthesiologist clients depend on us to protect their mission-critical data. Consonus enables us to do just that."
"abeo required a highly-secure and reliable location for their mission-critical IT infrastructure," said Bob McCarthy, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Consonus Technologies. "Ensuring data security and accessibility, our data center facilities and IT capabilities are fundamental to abeo's disaster recovery strategy."
About Consonus Technologies
Consonus Technologies, Inc. is a leading national provider of IT infrastructure, data center, co-location, and managed services solutions based in Cary, NC. Offering a comprehensive suite of IT infrastructure services, combined with highly secure and reliable data centers across the country, Consonus provides customers with complete solutions addressing disaster recovery and data center availability, manageability, and consolidation. Visit Consonus Technologies on the Web at www.consonus.com.
About abeo
abeo is the nation's second largest anesthesia billing and practice management firm with a clientele that extends from coast to coast. Comprised of four deep-rooted anesthesia-specific firms — Summit HMR, Professional Management Group, Pasadena Billing Associates, and MedSuite — abeo has built a reputation for unparalleled customer satisfaction, remarkable resources, and state-of-the-art technology. Visit abeo on the Web at www.abeomed.com.
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Contacts:
Consonus Technologies Inc.
Jonna Murnick
Director of Marketing
+1 (704) 357-2720
jonna.murnick@consonus.com
J.R. Thompson
President
abeo Mt. Division
(801) 993-9510
jthompson@abeomed.com
