Case Study: GLIDE Foundation achieves 100% uptime and $37,000/year IT savings with 365 Data Centers

GLIDE - Customer Case Study

The Glide Foundation (GLIDE) is a long‑standing San Francisco nonprofit that provides meals, housing assistance, healthcare, recovery programs, childcare and legal services, and depends on its website and IT systems to coordinate volunteers and fundraising for a $16M annual budget. GLIDE’s on‑premises server closet suffered from insufficient power, cooling and space as technology needs grew, creating outage risk and preventing expansion — it needed 100% uptime, reliable power and cooling, data security, lower operating costs and proximity to its offices.

365 Data Centers provided secure colocation with redundant power and cooling, plus redundant circuits, load balancing and system replication (including call manager) to support GLIDE’s operations and disaster preparedness. The result: eight years of 100% uptime, about $37,000 saved per year (nearly $300,000 total), continuous 24x365 availability, and funds and peace of mind GLIDE could reallocate to core programs and services.

GLIDE

Kristen Growney Yamamoto

Co-Executive Director