Case Studies

Organiza on Smartz Industry IT Business Challenges Find flexible, inexpensive coloca on User Environment More than 3,000 users More than 20 loca ons Applica on Environment VMware virtualiza on ® IT SOLUTIONS a TDS® Company Knowles and his team moved Smartz's servers to the OneNeck data center, along with more than 3,000 client sites. The transi on, said Knowles, was seamless and smooth, with no down me experienced by their customers during the transi on thanks to OneNeck staff. "We were able to develop a high-trust rela onship with the OneNeck team very quickly," he said. "They made sure we were up and running in no me and they always responded to our concerns right away." The Benefits Almost immediately, Knowles and his customers saw the results of switching to OneNeck. "We used to experience li le problems all the me with our last coloca on facility," said Knowles. "All those things just went away when we switched to OneNeck." The team at Smartz—and their customers—no ced a marked increase in reliability. Smartz sites performed be er and no longer experienced any down me or hiccups. "From our customers' perspec ve, they have a Smartz site," said Knowles. "OneNeck is invisible to them, and that's the way it should be. It just works." In addi on to improved up me and faster speeds, Smartz was also able to cut their coloca on costs by 30 percent. "Switching to OneNeck led to a significant reduc on in our costs," Knowles said. "That ul mately means we'll be able to expand our business and provide our customers with be er service." About OneNeck IT Solutions OneNeck IT Solu ons provides world-class, hybrid IT solu ons for thousands of businesses around the globe. From cloud and hos ng solu ons to managed services, ERP applica on management, professional services, IT hardware and top- er data centers in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and Wisconsin, OneNeck has the exper se to help customers navigate the cloud to get the right applica on on the right cloud at the right me. OneNeck is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS]. A Fortune 1000 company, TDS provides wireless; wireline and cable broadband, TV and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately six million customers na onwide. Smart Solutions Summary OneNeck.com 855.ONENECK Part #9.2.6_CSSS_0919_v3 ©2019 OneNeck IT Solutions LLC. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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