Microsoft SharePoint in the Cloud: Bluelock Helps Codesigned Deliver for WellStar Health Systems
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Bluelock Virtual Datacenters
- VMware vCloud Director
- Bluelock Portfolio
Tech Stack
- .NET
- VMware
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Remote Collaboration
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Codesigned is a technology services firm that specializes in high-quality, branded collaboration solutions, focusing on Microsoft SharePoint. The company has a team of experienced consultants, system engineers, SharePoint Architects, .NET developers, and web developers. Codesigned provides enterprise-class collaboration consulting, large-scale implementation planning and installation, design and deployment of custom features, and customized private cloud and mobile solutions. The company has recognized the growth of SharePoint as a tremendous opportunity within the marketplace and has successfully leveraged it with its cloud-based SharePoint offerings. Codesigned developed its unique cloud computing offerings to help create and provide comprehensive hosted SharePoint solutions, with manageable infrastructure, combined with their well-renowned SharePoint expertise and staff.
The Challenge
Codesigned, a technology services firm specializing in Microsoft SharePoint, needed a scalable, high-performance, enterprise-class infrastructure to accommodate growth and unpredictable client workloads. They also required a service provider with robust compliance measures and security levels to enable them to work with companies in highly regulated industries like healthcare. They sought a reliable and industry-proven cloud hosting platform. The company evaluated several large hosting companies, including Terremark, SunGard, and Dell, but found that most options did not provide the transparency and accessibility to their environment as well as a strong service mentality that could ensure a mutually beneficial partnership.
The Solution
Codesigned chose Bluelock, a VMware vCloud Datacenter service provider, due to its unparalleled visibility into costs and resources through Bluelock Portfolio, true environment scalability and agility, and Bluelock’s strong partnership with VMware. Bluelock Virtual Datacenters take minutes to set up, either through the vCloud Director-based self-service interface or with Bluelock’s managed services team. Users can build new virtual machines (VMs) quickly from public and private catalogs of VM templates, or simply upload VMs they already have running in an environment. With Bluelock Virtual Datacenters, users can easily subtract and add capacity as they go, paying for only what is used. With the ability to upload and download any VMware compatible workloads, users can easily migrate VMDK files to and from the Bluelock Virtual Datacenter. The solution is built on open standards with Open Virtualization Format (OVF) packaging for the transport of workloads and interoperability, with additional support for the VMware vCloud API.
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