Case Study: Ciao Bella Gelato achieves greater productivity and disaster resilience with EarthLink Business Cloud Hosting

EarthLink Cloud Hosting brings dessert-maker big productivity gains — plus an even sweeter unexpected benefit

Ciao Bella Gelato, a premium gelato and frozen dessert maker, was struggling with aging servers, slow application performance, and limited in-house IT support. Employees, sales reps, and distributors relied on central systems to do their jobs, but the company needed a more reliable and efficient way to manage its business-critical applications. EarthLink Business, through its Cloud Hosting service, was brought in to solve the challenge.

EarthLink Business moved Ciao Bella Gelato’s entire data center to its cloud hosting platform and added managed services plus replication at a second site. The result was faster network performance, better reliability and security, and major productivity gains; updates that once took hours now took about five minutes. The move also helped Ciao Bella avoid about $80,000 in server upgrade costs and keep operations running through Superstorm Sandy, despite a two-week power outage.

Ciao Bella Gelato

Bob Serchuk

Controller