Desired Business Outcome When a regional bank went through a restructuring that included downsizing its IT department and consolidating its data center to be more virtual-based, it needed to find a local IT hosting provider that could help with its continued virtualization and house its last remaining cabinets rather than pursuing construction of a new, smaller data center as...
Disaster RecoveryDesired Business Outcome With its automation and interface tools that address regulatory integration challenges in order to simplify laboratory workflow in more than 1,400 laboratories across the country, Orchard Software must have reliable IT services from a partner that it trusts to handle all of its critical data. The company found this—and other qualities—with Expedient. “From Internet to colocation...
Software as a Service Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery cloud colocationThermal Containment System Energy efficiency is an area of concern for organizations concerned with cost control and environmental impact resulting from an expanding carbon footprint due to fossil consumption. No matter the reason, conserving energy is a good thing. Data center operators are no strangers to this area of concern. One way data centers manage energy consumption is to...
Data CentersDesired Business Outcome Interactive Blue, the creator of Blue, a content and knowledge management tool and customer relationship management application (CRM) used primarily by Better Business Bureaus (BBB) across the country, needs to stay up-to-date with the latest technology because it processes large amounts of data through Blue. Knowing that Expedient partners with Intel to maintain a high level...
Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery cloud colocationDesired Business Outcome For the past eight years, Omnyx, a joint venture between GE Healthcare and UPMC that is committed to helping transform cancer care through advances in digital pathology, has relied on Expedient to deliver high availability, scalability and reliability of its information technology (IT) infrastructure so it can remain focused on its critical life-saving mission. “The cost...
Healthcare Cloud Computing Disaster RecoveryDisaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) has really expanded in popularity over the last couple of years due to the growth of virtualization as a standard process for many enterprises and the fact that most managed service providers have a DRaaS product in their offerings. But according to a new research paper by 451 Research, it is Expedient that has...
Disaster RecoveryAt VMworld 2016, AJ Kuftic, Vice President of Product Strategy for Expedient was joined by Thomas Hobika, Director, Service Provider Solutions Engineering for VMware, to present the featured session Virtualize, Secure and Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud Using NSX: A perspective for Service Providers and End Users. The session describes how both service providers and end users can...
Cloud Computing Disaster RecoveryDesired Business Outcome First Insight, a provider of cloud-based solutions that help retailers determine trends, depends on consumer data to deliver the solutions its clients need. To provide that data, First Insight must have reliable infrastructure, and for that, it depends on Expedient. “We wanted to make sure that we have the right kind of partner solution vendor who...
Disaster Recovery cloud disaster recovery colocationITIL®, formerly known as Information Technology Infrastructure Library, began in the 1980s and is a framework for standardizing IT practices and procedures for processes like change management, service-level management, incident management and more. It has gone through many iterations since the UK government initiated it. Today, it is set through AXELOS, a joint venture between the British government and Capital...
Cloud Computing Server ManagementBimodal IT is a relatively new buzzword/term that was coined by Gartner, the technology research advisory company. But what does it actually mean and is it the correct approach to tackling your organization’s internal information technology needs. According to Gartner, “bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focuses on stability...
Cloud ComputingTaking Partnerships to a New Level Many managed service providers partner with outside technology vendors to develop complementary solutions or improve upon existing products to deliver the most value for their customers. Expedient takes that partnership approach to a new level. Expedient partners with industry leaders so that we can offer the best technology and top performance for our...
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