Accelerating Transformation with a Different Approach to Multi-Cloud Management
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Expedient CTRL suite
- Automation CTRL
- Cost CTRL
Tech Stack
- VMware vSphere
- VMware vCloud Director
- Nutanix AHV
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Ansible
- Color Tokens
- Cohesity
- Zerto
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Fleet Management
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Expedient is a leading full-stack cloud service provider (CSP) that takes a Cloud Different™ approach to today’s multi-cloud challenges to help organizations accelerate or reignite their transformation journey. The company focuses on helping clients transform their IT operations through award-winning solutions and managed services that include multi-cloud, disaster recovery, security, compliance, desktop-as-a-service, co-location, and more. The portfolio is designed to ease clients’ transition to the cloud, enabling them to focus on strategic business innovation while the Expedient team handles the IT operations needed to support it. Expedient has been a service provider for more than 20 years, starting as a physical data center and network-interconnect provider supporting colocation, then moving to managed hosting. The company now supports thousands of clients in healthcare, insurance, finance, manufacturing, and even other technology providers. Its cloud infrastructure is deployed worldwide. The company is in growth mode, with 14 data centers throughout the U.S. and a rapidly expanding footprint.
The Challenge
Expedient's clients were looking to move numerous applications into a cloud operating model, which includes a mix of applications and assets they own on premises, in a hosting data center, or in a hyperscale cloud. However, figuring out the optimal placement of workloads from their current environment to the right mix of cloud operating model was a complex challenge. Many clients were only 30 percent of the way to that destination due to reasons such as not knowing how many of their applications would fit a hyperscale cloud model and not envisioning other ways to reach their objectives. Expedient needed a common control plane that could unlock and provide access to client compute resources while also giving Expedient tools to improve service delivery. The main problems that needed addressing were making it easier for clients to provision into multiple clouds without adding complexity, providing insight into costs to ensure clients were getting the best value for their dollar, and being able to provide governance and insight into security across clouds.
The Solution
When Expedient was looking for the right hybrid cloud management platform partner, Morpheus came into the picture with a unified approach that stretched across different environments and took the complexity out of workload provisioning. It was exactly the foundation needed to support Expedient’s next-generation offerings. Morpheus offered the right mix of simplicity and extensibility, providing Expedient an opportunity to start small and then expose new services to clients over time. This in turn gave Expedient the ability to “turn the knobs” and choose the right mix for different clients – showing them just what they want to see but not what they don’t need. Expedient liked that Morpheus natively integrated with the technologies they were already using and allowed them to choose the experience they wanted to deliver without a lot of brittle scripting or custom code. This loosely coupled approach with out-of-the-box integrations supports sustainable, scalable growth that readily accommodates new services. Multi-tenancy was very important to enabling everything from basic VMaaS for single tenants to larger enterprise clients needing complex group and role structures set up to meet unique needs. Lastly, Morpheus reduced tool sprawl, aligning with Expedient’s core philosophy that getting closer to one way of doing something drives simplicity and eliminates cost.
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