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eGUIDE 6 (855) ONE-NECK | www.OneNeck.com The Customer Minneapolis is the largest municipality in Minnesota with more than 400,000 residents, forming half of the Twin Ci es with the neighboring state capital, St. Paul. Minneapolis serves as a center of commerce for the region, including support for a large agricultural region with food processing, as well as manufacturing, compu ng and health services. Running the City's infrastructure requires a complex enterprise network with customized so ware for each government department and agency. The Challenge The City of Minneapolis had been working with their previous IT outsourcing partner for 13 years and desired to find a new managed services and outsourced IT partner to manage the City's IT infrastructure. In addi on, the exis ng network infrastructure was aging, and the City needed an experienced IT services partner to provide cloud and managed services that encompassed server, Video OneNeck's ReliaCloud - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) A cloud solu on should enable your IT organiza on to provide services quickly and cost effec vely and be flexible enough to respond to change. Meet ReliaCloud. Watch Now WATCH City of Minneapolis Keeping the City Running with Cloud and Managed IT Services from OneNeck storage, network, security, database, OS and data protec on services. A er issuing a comprehensive RFP for outsourced IT services, the City of Minneapolis selected OneNeck out of a field of 18 prospec ve partners to handle this comprehensive list of services. The OneNeck® IT Solu ons Answer Because of OneNeck's comprehensive hybrid IT service offerings, OneNeck had all of the resources needed to manage the City of Minneapolis' compu ng infrastructure. As part of the contract, OneNeck would provide coloca on services leveraging OneNeck's na onal footprint of highly-secure data centers it owns and operates. One data center was to host the City's produc on applica on environment, while disaster recovery for mission-cri cal and business-cri cal applica ons would be supported from another OneNeck data center. OneNeck also was able to bring all the exper se required to maintain enterprise opera ons, including managed services for networking equipment such as routers, switches and firewalls across 70 loca ons. Data hos ng using OneNeck's' ReliaCloud® infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) pla orm was able to support more than 250 servers with 180 terabytes of data, including dedicated servers for non-virtualized assets. The OneNeck team also brought the exper se to transi on and upgrade cri cal components the City's PeopleSo environment to support human resources and finance. Migra on included transi oning and suppor ng hundreds of applica ons for specific city services, such as waste management, land management, parks and recrea on and more.