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Second Quarter 2014
Windstream Hosted Solutions

Accelerates Cloud Migration

for Enterprise Customers,

Using Racemi Cloud Path

W
indstream Hosted Solutions, part of drive, or rebuild servers from the ground up.
Windstream, and one of the nation’s Windstream’s new solution is a sophisticated,
premier providers of enterprise- market-sensitive alternative to these options.
class cloud and managed hosted solutions, has “Cloud migration can be daunting for many
partnered with Racemi, a Software as a Service businesses, not only because of the complexity
(SaaS) provider, to enable business to quickly of the solutions, but also due to the perception
and automatically migrate their existing physical that critical time and data may be lost during
and virtual servers to Windstream’s cloud.
migrations,” said Matt Preschern, senior vice
By leveraging Racemi’s Cloud Path SaaS president and enterprise chief marketing officer
platform, Windstream will accelerate server at Windstream. “Windstream’s innovative
migration, allowing enterprise customers to migration option virtually eliminates concerns
continue daily business operations during the regarding downtime, and continues to support
migration without experiencing downtime. our ‘smart solutions, personalized service’ brand
With this automated process, the data transfer promise to our customers.”
occurs in the background while the production Windstream Hosted Solutions offers a robust
server stays up and running.
cloud computing solution that dramatically
Additionally, Cloud Path’s self-service portal improves the efficiency and availability of
has been fully integrated into Windstream’s IT resources and applications for enterprise
cloud portal, providing a seamless transition businesses, allowing them to rapidly implement
into the Windstream cloud.
cloud services without capital investments
“We know from experience with many so they can reshape their environment on
businesses that manual, time-consuming cloud demand. The Windstream Hosted Solutions
migration creates barriers to cloud entry,”
said Chris Nicolini, Windstream’s senior
suite includes public, private, and hybrid cloud products, available to businesses nationwide.
vice president of data center operations. “We These managed and dedicated hosting solutions,
deliberately partnered with Racemi, given their combined with Windstream’s full line-up
history and experience in providing solutions of advanced network communications and
that make cloud transitions seamless and technology products -- including voice and
efficient.”
data services such as VoIP, SIP trunking, MPLS,
For customers seeking to migrate data, and dedicated high-speed internet -- enable
applications and systems to a cloud environment, Windstream to offer its customers a complete
the transition process can be a cumbersome.
set of integrated services.
Currently, many companies move data using More at www.windstream.com and www.
either an external storage device, such as a hard
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