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Immedion Names Jim Stritzinger to Head Columbia Data Center

Submitted by: Natalia Muska on Apr 06, 2010 at 3:14 pm Tagged with: Columbia Data Center, Immedion, Jim Stritzinger, SCRA Source: Immedion

GREENVILLE, S.C. (March 31, 2010) Immedion, LLC, South Carolina’s first dedicated data center and managed services provider has named Jim Stritzinger to manage their new Columbia location. Jim will play a vital role in developing Immedion’s presence in the Midlands region of SC. He has a proven track record as a business leader in SC and was selected to the inaugural Liberty Fellowship class in 2004.

Before joining Immedion, Jim was the Director of the Carolinas for Tribridge, Inc. where he was responsible for expanding business into North and South Carolina and managed Tribridge’s national Microsoft Dynamics SL practice. Prior to joining Tribridge, Stritzinger served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of SC Public Interest Research for the South Carolina Research Authority. He was heavily involved in the creation of SC Launch!, South Carolina’s seed capital investment program and served as its’ first President. In addition, he previously worked for IBM, Schlumberger, and General Electric before becoming founder and president of ClearView Software. ClearView was eventually acquired by Solomon Software and then later became part of Great Plains Software and then ultimately Microsoft Business Solutions.

“Immedion is a well-respected, fast-growing, knowledge economy company that provides key data center infrastructure for small to enterprise-class businesses” said Stritzinger. “I’m excited to join the Immedion team and look forward to using all of my resources to make the Columbia data center a huge success. It’s a special opportunity to live and work in Columbia – especially when I get to be one of the first InnoVista partners!”

Jim has served on numerous Boards including the SC Venture Capital Investment Authority, Hilton Head-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, SC Biotechnical Incubator, Technical College of the Lowcountry Foundation and the SC Chamber of Commerce. He is currently active on the Philanthropy Committee of the American Red Cross and serves as an Advisory Board member for several Centers of Economic Excellence (CoEE) at USC’s Arnold School of Public Health. In addition, Stritzinger is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has served as a coach, mentor and judge for the Palmetto FIRST Robotics Competition.

“Jim is a valuable asset to our team as we expand into Columbia and the Midlands region” said Frank Mobley, CEO of Immedion. “His experience and his knowledge of the Columbia area will be important for Immedion as we prepare to open our new data center and hire more people to join our team.”

About Immedion
Immedion’s objective is to keep business-critical data and applications available 100% of the time. They accomplish this by coupling a world-class data center facility and a strategic array of managed services developed to deliver the highest degree of reliability at a very competitive price. Since 2007, Immedion has been delivering fully redundant power, Internet bandwidth, cooling and humidity control to South Carolina’s business IT infrastructure. Customers leverage the Immedion enterprise-level data center to minimize critical computer system downtime caused by commercial power outages, Internet problems, or other system failures. Immedion is headquartered in Greenville, SC and has an office opening in Columbia the summer of 2010. For more information please visit www.immedion.com, or contact Immedion at 864.908.3000.

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