How Flexibility Led to Cost Savings AND Increased Production for a Leading Marine Company

This Manufacturing company was faced with the challenge of moving their AS/400 production and test environments out of their existing location due to the company’s divestiture, and they had to do it within months. Blue Hill began working with them and an agreement was signed before month’s end.

Challenge(s)

Faced with the requirement of moving their AS400 production and disaster recovery environments out of their existing data center.

• Finding an MSP who had the ability to keep them on the existing hardware and operating software levels.
• Completing the migration on time and on budget
• Finding a service provider who had been around for a while, with a good track record, good connectivity, and experienced staff who knew the mainframe.
• Looking for a data center that was close in proximity was key.

Solution

Blue Hill’s hosting solution encompassed migrating the client’s workloads to our data center within the required timeframe and within budget.

• Receiving fully managed support services 24/7 so their staff could focus on core business requirements.
• Competing the transition and migration on time and on budget
• Hosting solution without the requirement to upgrade
• Experienced and skilled staff to support our environment, and they were true to their word.
• Blue Hill provided the flexibility and went the extra mile to accommodate their needs

While other providers were telling us we needed to upgrade, Blue Hill made it seem easy.

Blue Hill saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars, and didn’t force us to upgrade to the latest hardware and software versions.

We pride ourselves on our flexible approach for both services and contracts,” said John Lalli, COO and Managing Director, Blue Hill Data Services. “We understand companies today need to get problems solved efficiently without being forced into situations that could potentially cost them a lot in time, money, and resources. We have a unique ability to adapt quickly to a customer’s given challenge and build the right solution at a reasonable cost.

No other hosting provider would give us this flexibility – the other vendors required us to upgrade before they moved us. By using Blue Hill, we were able to save money and avoid additional costs that would have been incurred during the upgrade process. More importantly, we also saved a considerable amount of time and effort, and the risk of not knowing what we would find if we had to go through a lengthy upgrade process. Blue Hill’s solution allowed us to free up our resources to focus on projects that were critical to meeting our business priorities – IT Director