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When fast-growing information technology services company independenceIT (iIT) chose EarthLink for virtualized Cloud Hosting services , we shared the news by issuing a press release and publishing a new iIT Case Study. EarthLink enables iIT to deliver Cloud Workspace™ and application platforms to their clients, improving the performance of its virtualized platform and allowing their internal IT team to focus efforts on development, support and enhancements rather than data center management. Utilizing EarthLink’s Cloud Hosting service, network infrastructure, and data centers frees iIT’s developers and systems engineers to bring new and enhanced solutions to market.

“With EarthLink Cloud Hosting, we eliminated the need to add infrastructure or engineering resources to scale our operations, while reducing our annual costs by an estimated 16 percent,” said Charles Buck, iIT Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. “We’re able to keep our team very focused on profit-generating technology advancements, bringing new platform enhancements to market faster and keeping ahead of the competition while staying lean.”

To have such a leading-edge IT company select EarthLink is a huge vote of confidence in the reliability, performance and security of our solution. Two reasons cited in their decision were improved performance and the ability to more keenly dedicate its IT teams on development, support and enhancements rather than data center management.

Flexibility, scalability and an intense focus on customer care also gave iIT an appreciation of its EarthLink account team.

“We feel our products and platform are unique, and iIT truly appreciates the dedication, collaboration and customized approach that EarthLink provides. Any partnership comes down to people and execution. In the end, that’s what we bought with EarthLink, the out-of-the-box, flexible thinking and willingness to get it done,” shared Buck.

Earlier this year, EarthLink and independenceIT also signed an agreement enabling EarthLink to offer iIT’s Cloud Workspace solutions to customers as a part of EarthLink’s IT Services product suite. So this latest development further deepens our mutually-beneficial relationship and will greatly benefit customers of both companies.

Consider how EarthLink can help your overstretched IT team focus on priorities that improve your customer experience and bottom line rather than continual investments in hardware and engineering.

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Here at EarthLink, we like to talk about ourselves as “the original cloud company” due to our long history providing a virtual environment to millions of customers. That is a bold statement, but considering that we’ve provided secure online billing, virtual customer care, email and ecommerce in the cloud with a high level of network security and PCI compliance since the 1990’s, EarthLink can back up this statement with experience and expertise.

Now, as we continue our transformation to an integrated communications and IT services provider for business customers, we’ve announced several recent IT Services product launches that underscore how far EarthLink has travelled down the path.

This week, EarthLink Business launched Cloud Workspace™, a hosted desktop service and our latest virtualization product. This customized environment enables customers to control business applications and data with secure access for employees from anywhere, from any device and via any high-speed Internet or private MPLS connection. Cloud Workspace also helps to significantly reduce operating costs, eliminate capital expenditures, increase employee productivity with easy application access and reduce complex security challenges. Read more.

And in late April, EarthLink premiered three new IT Services packages designed to simplify the cloud so businesses can leverage the benefits of virtualization services. The Cloud Launch Pad, the Cloud Entry Bundle, and the Secure Email Bundle enable customers to economically partner with EarthLink to complement their internal IT resources by leveraging a comprehensive mix of IT Services and security experts in an enterprise class data center environment.

“With these carefully designed bundles, EarthLink has removed many of the real or perceived barriers for customers of any size to explore what the cloud can mean for their business,“ said Barbara Dondiego, EarthLink Chief Marketing Officer. “We often hear from customers that they want their provider to act as an extension of their internal IT team, helping them become more productive and effective. These bundles are a toolkit that enables that to happen easily.” Read more.

Watch for even more exciting IT Services product news in the weeks and months ahead as EarthLink enhances its suite of virtualization, data center, managed security services, and managed support services. By converging our extensive telecom assets with proven cloud-based IT technologies, EarthLink is well-positioned to offer both its existing and new business customers with an ideal blend of the services they need to run their enterprises as efficiently as possible.

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