# University of Phoenix

Using Expedient Enterprise Cloud, the University of Phoenix was able to cut costs by $50 million over three and a half years. Those cost savings lead directly to a better experience for over 80,000 students each year.

Source: https://expedient.com/knowledgebase/resources/case-study/university-of-phoenix/

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> “We pay less now for the overall hosting solution with Expedient than we did just for storage and backup while we were in the data center.”

_– Jamie Smith, CIO, University of Phoenix_

The University of Phoenix was founded over 40 years ago to serve working adults and allow them access to career-bettering education on their schedule. Since then, they've been a leader in online education and an innovator in digital learning experiences. Part of being a leader and an innovator comes from making investments in their students, and money the University of Phoenix doesn't have to spend on IT and infrastructure is money that goes toward a better student experience.

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## Challenges

Over 70% of IT resources spent maintaining status quo in a 27,000 square foot data center with 12,500+ servers

Annual electric bill of over $1.7 million made operating their data center untenable

Previous lift-and-shift efforts to hyperscale cloud failed due to complexity of modernizing legacy applications

Fast-approaching data center lease renewal with discouraged team giving up on cloud transformation

## Outcomes

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Cut costs by $50 million over three and a half years

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Saved over 234,000 hours of labor

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Reduced owned hardware from thousands of servers to only 7 in colocation

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