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Coastal Securities Business Overview

Coastal Securities, Inc. is a registered securities dealer providing a broad range of professional investment services to institutional investors across the United States and around the world.

Coastal Securities is consistently a leader in the marketing of SBA loan and pool products and USDA loans. Coastal is very active in the underwriting and sale of municipal bonds and also acts as financial advisor for many different political subdivisions. Coastal has developed programs to provide a wide array of financial strategy services as well as assistance in reporting and accounting functions for its many diverse clients.

IT Challenge

Coastal Securities needed a secure, redundant and reliable facility to colocate their equipment in the event of a business disruption. 

Solution

After years of utilizing OnRamp’s T1 services, Coastal Securities turned to OnRamp to help implement their business continuity plan.

“With our headquarters in Houston, we needed a business continuity site and selected OnRamp due to their ideal geographic location, professional staff, secure facility and broad suite of services,” said Senior VP of Information Technology William H. Latimer.  “Because of OnRamp’s expertise at every layer of Internet Operations, we were able to choose a solution in between Colocation and Managed Servers.  It’s because of the ‘in between’ that we selected OnRamp as our Internet Operations Company.”

Benefits

Customers like Coastal Securities can benefit from OnRamp’s customized Colocation, Managed Server and Disaster Recovery solutions.  OnRamp is the only Data Center in Austin and Central Texas to provide a single source for all of the services and complementary resources necessary to fully integrate your Internet Operations.  Because OnRamp’s enterprise team is experienced at application development, software/hardware configuration and system management, we eliminate the seams that exist between companies that only provide parts of the solution.  Customers depend upon OnRamp’s unique technical expertise, broad set of services and 24/7/365 hands-on support to supplement their abilities in order to reliably deploy every layer of Internet Operations.

Bargain Server Special

• HP Proliant DL Server
• 1 CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• (1) 80 GB Hard Drive
• 128Kbps Bandwidth
• Cisco PIX 501 Firewall
• Linux OS
• $125 One-Time Set Up Fee