It costs a whole lot more to do that, but the results of not doing it for us, from a business perspective, were much higher than the cost of doing it initially. One breach or one failure could cost us all of our partners.
We realized we can't spend a billion dollars and do this ourselves.
It was just a matter of building it. We've had to jump through several technological hoops.
Small companies are usually not trying to get to that level of service. It's an added level of complexity.
IT is our business. We have to plan more like a large enterprise would, with large generators, redundancy, multiple service providers and a much higher level of network capability.