EarthLink Business cuts operational costs and improves network performance with help from Cisco Cloud Enablement Services.

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Challenge

Build a viable cloud offering to remain competitive in IT services for small and medium-size businesses:

• Expand service set to include cloud offering for small to medium-size businesses
• Achieve greater scalability than possible with legacy cloud infrastructure
• Help ensure better redundancy by building infrastructure across multiple regions

Solution

The company chose a next-generation approach offering a more intelligently designed, complete cloud solution:

• Cisco UCS combines network and computing in an easy-to-manage environment
• Cisco Cloud Enablement Services determines infrastructure necessary to support cloud-ready environment
• Cisco Data Center Optimization Services facilitates the transition to infrastructure as a service

Results

Earthlink Business received an exceptional level of guidance to deliver infrastructure as a service using the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program. As a result, they:

• Reduced time to deploy, replace, and upgrade hardware by 25 percent
• Cut firmware upgrade time from days to hours
• Delivered more reliable uptime and significantly improved customer experience