Case Study: Birkman International achieves secure, scalable, highly available data hosting with Data Foundry

Birkman Taps Data Foundry as Data Center Outsourcing Partner

Birkman International, a 60‑year‑old Houston firm and developer of the Birkman Method® used by more than 1,000 organizations and producing nearly 8,000 online assessments monthly, saw demand skyrocket after launching BirkmanDirect®. Its in‑house web servers and Internet connection lacked monitoring, redundancy and reliability, causing frequent outages and putting long‑term client questionnaire data availability and trust at risk.

Birkman selected Data Foundry to colocate its mission‑critical web and database servers and provide managed services—daily/weekly tape backups, firewall management, 24/7 network monitoring, managed Internet and load balancing. The outsourced, scalable data center solution delivered secure, redundant infrastructure that ensured continuous access to BirkmanDirect, protected client data integrity and restored client confidence, with over 99% of users now accessing the service online.

Birkman International

Beverly Martin

Director of Information Systems