June 29, 2011iovation Announces Additional Data Center in Seattleiovation Enhances High Availability Solutions and Scales Business to Handle Device Reputation DemandPORTLAND, Ore. – June 29, 2011 – iovation, the Device Reputation Authority™ protecting online businesses from fraud and abuse, today announced the addition of a new data center in Seattle, Washington. The new facility will enhance iovation’s high availability solutions and provide the additional capacity necessary to manage growing customer demand in all of the vertical markets that it serves. According to Scott Waddell, Vice President of Technology at iovation, “Our continued expansion of data center capacity allows my team to keep pace with the constantly increasing demand for ReputationManager 360 fraud protection, while laying the foundation for future services.” iovation’s new data center is located in the Westin Building, one of the leading interconnection facilities in the United States. The Westin Building is a major technology hub serving as a premier colocation, hosting, and interconnection point in the Northwest region. This facility provides iovation with interconnection to Asian, Canadian, European and US Internet service providers and carriers. As part of this infrastructure expansion, iovation has interconnected with other networks and online entities via the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX). The SIX was originally established in 1997 as a private interconnection between two ISP’s in the Westin building. Later that year, other ISPs became interested in interconnecting and the SIX was formed. Today through this exchange, iovation is available for direct customer peering. In addition, iovation’s new link to NTT Communications increases Asian connectivity and further supports its Japanese partner, Info Innovation Japan. About iovation iovation protects online businesses and their end users against fraud and abuse through our industry-leading combination of shared device reputation and real-time risk evaluation. 2,000 fraud managers around the globe leverage iovation’s database of Internet devices and relationships between them to determine the level of risk associated with any type of online transaction. Retail, financial services, social network, gaming and other companies make real-time queries to iovation’s knowledge base of 650 million devices from every country in the world. Every day, iovation protects more than 7.5 million transactions and stops over 150,000 fraud attempts. For more information, visit www.iovation.com. |
