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etrials Announces Enhanced 3-Year Agreement with Peak 10
2008-11-21
Holistic Solution Optimizes etrials? IT Infrastructure, Ensures Critical
Systems Are Highly Available with Peak 10?s Virtualization Solutions
RALEIGH, N.C. (November 17, 2008) ? etrials Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETWC),
a leading provider of adaptive eClinical software and services, and Peak 10,
Inc., the leading data center operator and managed services provider, announced
today a three-year extension agreement and enhancement of etrials?
fully-managed, dedicated virtual environment through Peak 10?s state-of-the-art
facility in Raleigh, NC.
?As we continue to experience growth in terms of the number of clinical studies
we deploy, the volume of critical data in those studies, and increasingly global
scale in which clinical trials are being managed, optimizing our system
utilization was a priority and virtualization was the solution,? said Chuck
Piccirillo, etrials? vice president of technology. ?For etrials and our
customers, clinical data integrity is of utmost importance, which is why we are
continuing to partner with Peak 10 to ensure, together, we provide the highest
levels of data integrity and achieve the highest availability possible.?
?We are very pleased that etrials decided to continue entrusting us with their
specialized IT needs,? said Greg Rollet, Peak 10?s regional vice president,
market operations. ?But there is an even greater level of satisfaction in
knowing that as etrials continues to grow and its customer and competitive
requirements become more complex, we have an extensive portfolio of managed
services, and around the clock support that can meet their data intensive and
industry-compliant demands.?
etrials implemented Peak 10's Virtualized Server Hosting, which offers a robust
infrastructure to support virtualized servers as an alternative to a traditional
physical server hardware platform lease. Actively supporting more than 100
clinical trials, etrials has strengthened the portability and availability for
its servers through the utilization of VMWare™ virtualization, which translate
into hardware independence, real-time server snapshots, improved implementation
time, and high availability clustering.
The Peak 10 Raleigh facility?s managed IT and data center services improve
reliability, increase revenue growth, lower costs and maximize internal
resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology
assets close to the business. Peak 10 combines its secure network, high-tech
data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and
support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. The company owns and
operates data centers in nine key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio;
Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.;
Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.
About etrials
etrials Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETWC) a leading provider of eClinical software
and services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and contract
research organizations offers adaptive, Web-based tools that work together to
coordinate data capture, logistics, patient interaction and trial management ?
turning data into intelligence and shortening the pathway to an actionable study
endpoint. etrials is one of the only top-tier solution providers that offers
electronic data capture (EDC), interactive voice and Web response (IVR/IWR),
electronic patient diaries (eDiary) as part of a flexible and integrated
software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform or as individual solutions to capture high
quality data from multiple pivot points to enable real-time access for perfectly
informed decision-making. As an experienced leader, etrials has facilitated over
900 trials involving more than 400,000 patients in 70 countries; and has
participated in 42 studies that resulted in 14 approved new drug applications
and/or regulatory approvals. To learn more visit us at
www.etrials.com.
About Peak 10, Inc.
Peak 10 is the leading independent data center operator and managed services
provider delivering scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and
managing complex information technology infrastructure. It combines its
portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve
market-leading companies including Healthways, Inc., LendingTree, Rivals.com,
Global Knowledge, Pergo, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10 is SAS 70
Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various
regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley
(GLBA). For more information on data center solutions from Peak 10, visit
www.peak10.com.
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