# Battelle for Kids

Source: https://expedient.com/knowledgebase/resources/battelle-for-kids/

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# Empowering Educators with Innovative Services and Solutions

Battelle for Kids Maintains its Focus on Moving Education Forward by Leveraging Expedient's Advanced Solutions

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> "Since we began partnering with Expedient, Battle for Kids has reduced our overall cost in technology infrastructure, increased our speed, reliability and capability to support our clients, and ensured that our infrastructure is stable and effective."

- Oscar Paredes, Managing Director of Technology, Battelle for Kids

Learn more about Battelle for Kids' success with Expedient[Download Case Study](https://bit.ly/2mKvBpc)

### Market Opportunity

## Move Education Forward Through Innovation

Battelle for Kids (BFK) is a national not-for-profit organization focused on developing innovative services and solutions that empower teachers, leaders and school systems to advance educational equity and opportunity for all students. BFK collaborates with state departments of education, urban, suburban and rural schools, and other education-focused organizations in more than 30 states to move education forward.

### Services
[Cloud](#)[Colocation](#)[Connectivity](#)
### Managed Services
[Backups](#)[Dedicated Firewall Management](#)[Server Management & Monitoring](#)

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### The Scenario

Battelle for Kids was seeking a hosting partner it could trust to allow its internal team to stay focused on its organizational mission and developing technology solutions that accelerate efforts of school districts and state departments of education to improve educational equity and opportunity for all students.

### The Challenge

To deliver its software solutions to educators, Battelle for Kids must have a reliable IT infrastructure that can handle the variable demand of the educational system. The organization wanted to move from purchasing its own hardware through capital expenditures to paying for managed services through operational expenses.

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### The Solution

Battelle for Kids found the solution it was looking for with Expedient’s hybrid cloud offering, a combination of public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and physical colocation.

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