Insurance provider achieves savings and speed via the cloud

“We ended up with no disruption to our business moving our data storage from a data center to the cloud, and I would attribute that to the flexibility of Spectrum Enterprise.” — Brent Gossett, Core Infrastructure Manager, Safety National

Safety National, an insurer that prides itself on quick responses whenever a crisis threatens a client, needed to act fast as a service provider’s bankruptcy threatened to disrupt their existing data storage.

“We were looking at either this huge spend upfront, refreshing our equipment and our data storage location, or doing it for much less in the cloud,” explains Brent Gossett, Core Infrastructure Manager at Safety National.

With the installation of Spectrum Enterprise Cloud Connect, Safety National got a connection to the cloud that gives them security and control, both critical concerns for the large insurer. Gossett and his IT team can decide on what data to move, when to move it and the intricacies of their own cloud architecture.

To facilitate the move to Cloud Connect, Safety National opted for the connectivity and bandwidth offered by Spectrum Enterprise Dedicated Fiber Internet (DFI). For the ability to fully control what goes into the cloud, and in a way that can be managed from a central location, Safety National invested in Spectrum Enterprise Ethernet.

Within several months, Safety National upgraded the capacity of its Cloud Connect solution to give it more than double the bandwidth it had before. This has also translated into faster speed when getting things done. “In the past, it could take a week to get a project underway,” Gossett says. “Now it’s hours, sometimes minutes. Cloud Connect allows us to be a lot more agile when it comes to infrastructure.”