Expedient’s Solutions:

“We came into the Boston Data Center at Expedient and had an extremely productive meeting where they listened to what we were looking to do, and they immediately sketched out a solution to our immediate needs,” says Bill O’Neil, chief technology officer, Interactive Blue. “It felt like we were landing right in the future at day one … so they hit the sweet spot where there seemed to be an effective trend in the download of information from us to the solution folks at Expedient, and they came back with something that matched up with our expectations, but we also saw how it could work moving forward.”

That solution included managed cloud hosting, managed and

unmanaged servers, a firewall and load balancer predicated on

establishing flexibility to meet Interactive Blue’s needs now and in

the future.

“We were very interested in managed services from the standpoint of backups and server management/patching; so it was important to us that we weren’t leaving those kind of important updates to someone where that was not their primary skill set.”-Bill O’Neil, CTO of Interactive Blue

Interactive Blue’s needs:Interactive Blue, a full-service Web and database design software

development company, wanted to establish its own independent

architecture as opposed to the shared cloud platform with outdated

hardware that it had at its previous facility.

Finding a cloud and data center provider that was able to help

the company find a scalable environment in its budget brought

Interactive Blue to Expedient.

Expedient Meets Interactive Blue’s Need for Upgraded Technology and Plan for Future Growth

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results:

“We’re going less by concrete metrics and more by what we experience, and I can tell you that, within the first several weeks, we had several emails and calls making notice of things that used to underperform or drag that are now working much more cleanly, and so we saw immediate dividends.”

Now with access to concrete numbers and metrics, Interactive Blue

will be able to monitor its usage and make future decisions based on

needs rather than speculation, and the trusted partnership allows both

Interactive Blue and Expedient to work together quickly and efficiently

to figure out the best directives.

“Within the first several weeks, we had several emails and calls making notice of things that used to underperform or drag that are now working much more cleanly, and so we saw immediate dividends.”-Bill O’Neil, CTO of Interactive Blue

Staying up-to-date with the latest technology was very important to

Interactive Blue because the company was not happy with the bare

metal servers it had at its last provider.

“The whole point of moving to a virtual, cloud-based situation is that we’re not going to fall behind,” O’Neil says. “And having someone who is continually updating and continually staying on top of (new hardware) means that I don’t have to.”

By hosting with an enterprise cloud provider, Interactive Blue benefits

from constantly improving performance by utilizing Intel’s latest

technology through Expedient rather than implementing hardware on

its own.

About Interactive Blue:

Interactive Blue is an enabler of digital economy businesses, providing strategy consulting and end-to-end solutions,

and the creator of Blue, a content and knowledge management tool and CRM used primarily by Better Business

Bureaus across the country.

About Expedient:

In addition to traditional data center colocation services, Expedient is known for offering a wide range of managed

services, such as cloud computing, remote backups, management of equipment, disaster recovery, storage area

networks and more.

Expedient operates eleven (11) data centers in seven (7) cities (Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis,

Memphis and Pittsburgh) which are all fully staffed with trained technology professionals 24/7/365 and all of

the facilities are seamlessly interconnected by a fully redundant, 10 Gbps fiber optic ring. Expedient’s approach

complements a variety of industry and government compliance requirements, including SOX, PCI DSS and HIPAA,

supported by third-party SOC attestation.

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