October 24, 2012
Advantive cuts build and operational costs by 30% with Interoute Virtual Data Centre
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Advantive, an international provider of Microsoft based ICT solutions, applications, consultancy and maintenance, has reduced the cost of extending its ICT Application development and production platform by 30% using Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Advantive is also using Interoute VDC to host its Narrowcasting solution InnovationScreen in a SaaS model.
Advantive provides innovative ICT solutions, specialist consultancy and maintenance for Microsoft technology. It also develops and creates its own pioneering Microsoft-based applications and offers hosted platforms to customers who use SharePoint and other Microsoft products as a managed service. To manage its development needs, Advantive built a scalable ICT development platform, but as its business growth accelerated, Advantive faced a future of spiralling hardware costs to build out its platform and keep pace with customer demand. Hosting its ICT production environment in Interoute’s pan-European private cloud, Advantive can scale its ICT platform to meet customer demand without incurring any of the hardware costs it previously had to cover.
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