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    With DRaaS, Continuous Availability Equals Competitive Advantage

    When IT disaster strikes every moment counts. Because of this, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solutions that automate total network failover and orchestrate application recovery will create a competitive advantage for your business. Push Button DR powered by Zerto is one such solution. As Expedient has offered DRaaS solutions to its clients since 2011, we were well aware...

    Disaster Recovery

    Reduce Cybersecurity Risk with a Secure-by-Default Enterprise Cloud

    Is your organization facing a server or data center hardware refresh in the next 18 months? If so, you may be considering purchasing replacement equipment to put in your primary internal data center or colocation facility. You may also be considering enterprise cloud infrastructure as an alternative. The most common reasons that organizations choose cloud may appeal to you: ...

    Security and Compliance Cloud

    Expedient Registers with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Assessment

    The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust, Assurance and Risk (STAR) registry publicly increases trust among cloud service providers (CSPs). The CSA STAR Program encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and harmonization of standards. Expedient now demonstrates its adherence to security and privacy best practices through its registration with CSA STAR. CSPs registered with the CSA STAR Program...

    Cloud Security and Compliance

    IDC: Expedient Delivers Compelling Value to Customers with Enterprise Cloud Platform

    This ExpertROI® Spotlight report by IDC provides a deep-dive analysis of the Expedient Enterprise Cloud (EEC) platform and explores the vision that Expedient shared with VMware to create a cloud services offering that enables businesses to leverage existing VMware investments and expertise. This shared vision and partnership created a unique cloud platform (EEC) that provides a much-needed alternative path...

    Cloud

    Trends in Cloud Native – What’s on the Horizon for Enterprise IT

    Faster development, faster delivery, faster return… The value of cloud native approaches is indisputable in today’s always-on digital economy, but the path to successful implementation is unclear for businesses burdened with legacy IT environments and technical debt. As this challenge comes up frequently in conversations with clients and prospects, we decided to dig deeper into the subject with independent analyst...

    Cloud

    Push Button DR: Resiliency Options for your Diverse Application Portfolio

    We recently expanded our portfolio of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solutions to provide clients and prospects with more flexibility and choice when it comes to replication options for computing workloads. This diversified DRaaS approach is based on the reality that most organizations utilize myriad workloads that each require different levels of protection. Our multi-tiered approach also...

    Disaster Recovery

    Achieving TechQuilibrium at Gartner IT Symposium/XPo

    Gartner is a leading research and advisory company, equipping leaders and their teams in major business functions with the insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and tomorrow. Gartner IT Symposium / XPo™ 2019 highlights the breadth of advisory services the company offers. Gartner bills its IT Symposium/XPo™ 2019 as the world’s...

    Security and Compliance Cloud

    How to Bridge the Gap Between On-Premises and the Hyperscale Cloud

    To take advantage of the inherent benefits of the Cloud (e.g. reduced IT costs, scalability, flexibility, availability), it has become commonplace to migrate legacy applications and business processes to the hyperscale cloud. While some organizations have found success with this strategy, moving to the hyperscale cloud has introduced new problems for many businesses, such as: IT Skills Gap – Running...

    Cloud

    Expedient Makes Its Mark at VMworld 2019

    At VMworld 2019, VMware encouraged attendees to “Make Your Mark.” The Expedient team answered that call as the VMware Americas Cloud Partner of the Year with its first ever sponsorship of the event, an exhibition booth in the Solutions Exchange, multiple educational session presentations, client case studies, and technology testimonials. More than twenty Expedient team members traveled to San...

    Cloud

    Can Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Simplify Mergers and Acquisitions?

    Can Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Simplify Mergers and Acquisitions? Mergers and acquisitions are common in most industries these days. While companies employ many different strategies to integrate newly acquired companies, we’ve found that the companies that leverage Information Technology (IT) as a strategic asset during the M&A process typically enjoy much smoother corporate integrations than those that don’t. We commonly...

    Cloud

    Persistent Volume Options for Kubernetes Storage

    Persistent Volume Options for K8s Storage Kubernetes was originally developed as a platform for stateless applications with persistent data stored elsewhere. As the project matured, many organizations wanted to also begin leveraging it for their stateful applications and so persistent volume management was added. At first, this was generally provisioned using cloud-provider-specific interfaces that linked directly to underlying block...

    Cloud