They do trading, stock research, market analytics, and have an internet-based customer portal. Frequent office moves wasted time and money on relocating, provisioning, securing, and cooling their server room. Primary IT support staff are located remotely. Market changes create unpredictable growth and shrinking of business, resulting in wasted IT expenditures.
Challenge #1
Frequent moves of server roomPrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud remote, secure, reliable data center for cloud services
Benefit
HF saved weeks and $tens of thousands on first move!
Challenge #2
Primary support staff moved out of state and not always availablePrimaCloud Solution
Current support staff administer VPDC with PrimaCloud staff as backup
Benefit
Continuity of IT services with improved availability
Challenge #3
Frequent changes in requirements due to business conditionsPrimaCloud Solution
Servers can be resized, added or removed on demand
Benefit
They pay only for what they need, and IT scales with the business
PrimaCloud Services Used
- 48 GB RAM
- 12 Cores
- 12 Windows Instances
- 3600 GB Storage
- 25GB Transfer
- Operations services provided by HF remote admin with PrimaCloud backup for 24x7 service
- IIS, .Net, and SQL Server application monitoring
- 12 instances under server monitoring
- VPN to customer site
- Colocated customer backup equipment
Benefit Summary
- Faster, cheaper, easier office moves
- Improved IT services with PrimaCloud backing up existing staff
- IT costs scale with business conditions; disaster recovery site available in days upon request
- No need to purchase or maintain equipment
