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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.”
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.
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
Cut costs by $50 million over three and a half years
Saved over 234,000 hours of labor
Reduced owned hardware from thousands of servers to only 7 in colocation
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