KNARESBOROUGH, England – TSYS announced completion of its 53,000 square-foot, purpose-built European data center in Knaresborough. The center was built to accommodate client growth and the company’s expansion throughout the continent. “The TSYS team fully understands the requirements for a high availability data center, and assembled a team of specialists and installed the most advanced equipment to deliver one, ” said Dr John Wood, Reliable IT Environments Ltd. “Resilience and redundancy have been the prime considerations. This is the best data center of which Reliable IT Environments is aware, certainly in the U.K. and probably in the whole of Europe. It will set the standard for the next decade.”
The center replaced the company’s leased data center in Harrogate. Built on 3 acres, the center contains 15,000 square feet for offices. Additional features include a separate machine room, plant block, N+N generator and UPS back-up systems. Additional acreage is available to accommodate future expansion.
“Investing in a purpose-built data center demonstrates our commitment to the European marketplace and helps us achieve our objective of becoming the leading consumer finance transaction processor,” said Kelley Knuston, Managing Director, TSYS Europe. “Our success in the United Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe depends on our ability to deliver exceptional services and products that meet the needs of all the markets we serve. Our European data center positions us to offer significant added-value solutions to financial institutions and retailers.”
Today TSYS currently serves more than 20 million consumer and commercial credit accounts in Europe, a market with 562 million credit and debit cards issued in 2003.
TSYS Europe has offices in London and York in the United Kingdom, as well as sales offices in The Netherlands and Spain serving northern and southern Europe, respectively. TSYS’ flagship system, TS2, is regarded as the gold standard of the industry, processing payments in multiple countries, currencies and languages. With more than 305 million accounts on file, TSYS serves clients on three continents representing 16 currencies and seven languages. In 2003, TSYS processed 7.4 billion transactions globally.
TSYS’ partners in the data center construction included Hanline Associates, Carey Jones Architects, Silcock Dawson & Partners, CODA, Smeeden Foreman, Rex Proctor & Partners, Quarmby Construction, Emcor Drake & Scull, Piller LTD, Walker Morris, and NBW Crosher & James. The partners involved in the migration included IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Kingston Communications.
About TSYS
TSYS (NYSE: TSS; www.tsys.com) brings integrity and innovation to the world of electronic payment services as the integral link between buyers and sellers in this rapidly evolving universe. TSYS is an 81-percent owned subsidiary of Synovus (NYSE: SNV; www.synovus.com). For more information, contact news@tsys.com.
