Expedient’s relationship with VMware goes back to 2006 when the Pittsburgh-head quartered managed service provider (MSP) embraced the virtualization of workloads in its first data center. Today, the company – a Pinnacle Partner in the Broadcom Advantage Program and former VMware Americas Cloud Partner of the Year – wants to help enterprises thrive in what President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Rosenson sees as the next chapter in hybrid cloud.
“We became proponents of the hybrid cloud nearly twenty years ago when it was clear no two clients would have similar transformation journeys,” says Rosenson. “Today, our continued belief in hybrid cloud strategies remains synonymous with our commitment to helping enterprises match the right workloads with the right cloud.”
Rosenson stresses that Expedient is more than an MSP. He views the company, which owns and operates 15 high-performance data centers throughout the U.S., as a curator of advanced technologies and an incubator of exceptionally skilled solutions professionals who drive business transformation.
“The outcomes our clients are looking for include agility, availability, cost control, and risk mitigation,” he adds. “We are brought in when there is often a change in their business, a deficiency they want to overcome, or an efficiency they want to achieve. Expedient then acts as an extension of their team, combining VMware by Broadcom technologies with other leading solutions and complementary services like security and data protection.”
Clients include hundreds of enterprises in practically every sector, among them standouts in trust-intensive industries like banking, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and retail – environments in which even the slightest disruption of systems can jeopardize mission-critical operations and revenues.
“Our differentiation is that we deliver enterprise platforms and multi-cloud services that help accelerate our clients’ business transformations and simplify their IT operations so they can focus on business outcomes,” says Rosenson. “Fundamentally, we help them get out of the data center business and provide them with far deeper infrastructure expertise so they can focus on their core business.”
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is at the core of those efforts and Expedient’s solutions.
“Today, most businesses rely on software-defined infrastructure whether it is to control robotic welders in a factory, automated picking in an omnichannel retailer’s warehouse, enable physicians to view medical images remotely or provide the infrastructure an on-demand software company needs to deploy an application. VCF is the foundation of the standard components we use.”
A new chapter for Expedient, Broadcom, and the hybrid cloud
With VMware now part of Broadcom – an acquisition that brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses to create an infrastructure leader – it has never been easier for enterprises to benefit from cloud-scale Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
Tailor-made for next-generation, data-intensive workloads, VCF now includes the entire VMware by Broadcom stack, replacing what was an extensive array of cloud solutions with a comprehensive, unified platform that includes robust compute, storage, and networking capabilities, important security functions, and cloud management capabilities that make it easier to orchestrate private, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, and to develop new cloud-native applications and hybrid cloud services.
“By simplifying its go-to-market strategy, Broadcom has made the entire VMware by Broadcom stack accessible,” says Rosenson. “But access to such powerful solutions makes it even more imperative for CIOs to partner with service providers like Expedient that are super users of VMware by Broadcom technologies and the solutions they provide to realize their full potential.”
One example is Expedient’s new AI offering, a solution built on VCF that provides clients with a five-step process to uncover their own AI strategy and deploy generative AI applications that are privately hosted, secure, and eliminate the risk of “shadow AI” that jeopardizes proprietary data and insights.
Even as demand rises for such promising innovations, Rosenson believes the next chapter for hybrid cloud includes the use of existing technologies with the right cloud based on the workload type – the shift Expedient has strived for since its founding. Hybrid cloud strategies pave the way for innovations and keep existing technologies running and accessible.
“The next big chapter for hybrid cloud will be when enterprises realize that VMware workloads can be best optimized by a cloud service provider running on VMware by Broadcom, like Expedient,” he says. “Many businesses operate heritage applications that are mission-critical systems of record based on VMware by Broadcom technologies. That’s why the next chapter of the hybrid cloud is the increasing realization among enterprises that they can address their needs with a multi-tenant or dedicated private cloud based on VCF. Simultaneously, they can optimize their apps and data residing in hyper-scale environments and the virtual machines and systems running between them – all while gaining complementary services like disaster recovery and data protection they couldn’t easily match on their own.”
Just as importantly, Rosenson believes people will also play a key role.
“When a customer needs help, assistance from an expert at Expedient they know by name is an email or cell phone call away,” he says. “That same seamless customer and partner experience marks our relationship with Broadcom. As a Broadcom Advantage Partner, we know our VMware colleagues value our experience in the field and seek our participation in their engineering efforts.”
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