Partnering with Dell and iland, Gates Hudson has completed installation of an off-site disaster recovery co-location. Located in Dallas, Texas, the new GHA cloud recovery site replicates all 10 of our production servers daily. One of many iland high security data centers around the world, the Dallas facility provides Gates Hudson with a comprehensive recovery option if the Fairfax office goes dark. iland provides scalable standby resources, that in case of a catastrophic event, allows Gates Hudson staff to continue operations in the cloud. These new capabilities, along with our triple redundant virtual server array, bring Gates Hudson data protection to a whole new level.
Howard Murphy Vice-President of Information Technologies
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Local Real Estate Management Firm Earns Professional Accreditation
February 18, 2011
Gates Hudson, headquartered in Fairfax, has earned the Accredited Management Organization® (AMO®) accreditation from the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®), an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors®. The AMO® accreditation is awarded to real estate firms that have a track record of high performance, experience, stability and financial accountability and have a Certified Property Manager®(CPM®) directing and supervising the real estate management team. In addition, AMO® firms must abide by a rigorous Code of Professional Ethics that is strictly enforced by the Institute.
Gates Hudson is a private real estate investment group and management company specializing in the acquisition, financing, development, renovation, management, and leasing of office & industrial buildings, shopping centers and multi-family apartment properties in the Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C markets. Gates Hudson was founded in 1980 with the primary goal of acquiring and developing a portfolio of investment real estate on behalf of its principals and in partnership with investor clients. Gates Hudson also owns and operates an association management company and a construction management company that specializes in renovating value-add properties.
Gates Hudson's current portfolio consists of 4,000,000 sq. ft. of office space and 5,500 apartments units in the greater Washington market.
Founded in 1933, the Institute of Real Estate Management educates real estate managers and certifies and enhances the competence and professionalism of individuals and organizations engaged in real estate management. IREM® also serves as an advocate on issues affecting the real estate management industry. IREM® has over 16,000 individual members, 8,600 who hold the CPM® designation and 3,600 who hold the ARM® certification. In addition, it has 530 firms that hold the AMO® accreditation. IREM® also has 82 U.S. chapters, seven international chapters and several other partnerships around the world.
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Gates Hudson Servers Are Now Virtual
May 6, 2010
Gates Hudson is excited to announce that we have recently upgraded our core computer systems.
Our 10 production servers now run in a virtual environment using 3 Dell R710 servers with 48 gigs of memory and 24 CPU's. Using Dell's "High Availability" model, the 3 servers are equipped to automatically failover with (Vmotion) from VMware. Switches, power-supplies, network cards are now triple redundant in addition to the "Raid 10" Storage Array. The new Gates Hudson servers now have a 12 Terabyte capacity and have 5 separate data protection schemes, including 2 offsite storage sites. Our systems are protected by a new ASA 5510 Cisco firewall and our Network Manager has recently earned an Ethical Hacker designation.
Twin Microsoft Terminal Server 2008 R2 servers with Barracuda load balancing, provide communication services to field offices, using standard Remote Desktop Connection for Windows. E-mail systems are now upgraded to Exchange 2010 providing our managers with the latest communication tools.
The Jenark powered Property Management software runs in Linux environment with a Progress database and is now in its third generation with a new Dashboard interface. This software has been installed at Gates Hudson for 16 years with a 99.999% uptime. Another great feature of the Jenark powered Management software is that it has the capability of automatically e-mailing monthly reports to designated e-mail addresses, or to a specific Website as needed. Capabilities now include TracerPro integration allowing managers to do workorders with their PDA phones, synchronizing in real time to the Jenark Server.
The database is now tested for integrity by a third party contractor - monthly and the implementation of full-scale invoice scanning is moving us closer to our paperless office goal.
All Jenark users enjoy the option of linking live data to an Association Voice powered website. Residents or Board members can review financial data on-line and homeowners can check their account balance, pay their assessment, place a work request or input an Architecture Change Request on-line.
This year GHA has also rolled out a virtual environment for site business centers and is in the planning stages of virtualizing our desktop PC inventory and implementing a SharePoint portal .
Howard Murphy Vice-President of Information Technologies
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