Lincoln, Nebraska — Insite Data Services, (IDS), is pleased to announce they are now hosting Cottonwood Valley Bank of Kansas. This is the first financial institution to be hosted by IDS.

With this service, the financial institution will have its core banking solution and other critical applications hosted in a secure and fault tolerant data center on a fast, non-stop virtual host configured and maintained by Insite Data Services network support department. Cottonwood Valley Bank is running their Insite Core, Check and Document Imaging, and Online Banking software applications from Automated Systems, Inc. at IDS.

“Cottonwood Valley Bank opened for business on September 18th as Insite Data Services very first hosted bank. After considering solutions from other Hosted Solution providers, Cottonwood Valley Bank chose Insite Data Services complete package of technology services. In addition to the hosting services, Insite Data Services configured the bank's local and wide area network - installing routers, switches, workstations, printers, firewall and security resources and more. Beyond installation, Insite Data Services will provide Cottonwood Valley Bank the ongoing managed network and security services they need from our state of the art data center,” said Craig Slaby, Director of Operations for IDS.

IDS focuses on three main solutions: application hosting, data protection, and secure email. These services allow community banks to get the most out of their IT budget by leveraging the infrastructure of a state-of-art data center with the depth of technical expertise offered by Insite Data Services team of certified network engineers and technicians. This eliminates the engineering and economic risk community banks faces when trying to set up and manage an in-house IT staff or by using local IT consultants..

The IDS application hosting server farms are located within secure data centers in central Iowa. These centers will provide and manage the network connectivity between the financial institutions and their application servers. IDS is dedicated to providing the best-in-class application hosting and network management services available.

“The transition from our in house server to IDS went very smooth. Darrell Ptaschek and his crew are very efficient, their on site portion of the conversion was less than twelve hours. It’s a great feeling to walk into the bank knowing I do not have to check the server rack; the burden is gone,” said Kelly Linnens, VP of Cottonwood Valley Bank.

Community banks will benefit from Insite Data Services Application Hosting Services in a variety of ways. When hosting they can reduce capital expenditures by designing and building an infrastructure with adequate physical security, cooling, power backup, fire protection, and redundant Internet connectivity. Also, banks are protected by an enterprise-class security center that offers state-of-the-art intrusion detection and prevention systems as well as secure structures to prevent unauthorized entry. Banks that are hosted will save on operational costs by leveraging the expertise of Insite Data Services IT professionals and Help Desk team.

Insite Data Services is a technology company focusing on three main solutions: application hosting, data protection, and secure email. We discovered that community financial institutions were not being given the resources and support needed to succeed in today's competitive markets. By partnering with industry leading technology providers, we offer quality products with the highest level of personal service. Our technology and financial background has given us the expertise necessary to exceed our clients' expectations and challenges.

Craig Slaby
Director of Operations
cslaby@insitedataservices.com
Phone: 402-420-6000