Case Study: Accelera Solutions achieves high-performance, cost-saving hybrid cloud deployments with Equinix Cloud Exchange and Azure ExpressRoute

Accelera Solutions - Customer Case Study

Accelera Solutions, a virtualization-focused managed service provider serving commercial and government clients, faced a common cloud adoption barrier: customers were reluctant to buy and support heavy on-premises hardware, struggled with unpredictable application loads, and needed secure, high-performance connectivity to enable hybrid cloud deployments. Accelera needed a way to lower capital outlay, control costs, and provide seamless, scalable access to Microsoft Azure while accommodating use cases that required some infrastructure to remain onsite.

Accelera solved this by pairing Equinix Cloud Exchange with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to create private, low-latency hybrid connections hosted at Equinix data centers. The approach reduced upfront IT capital (by more than $300,000 in examples) and can yield 20–30% savings over five years, while enabling rapid provisioning, better performance, dedicated bandwidth, improved security, and the flexibility to deploy workloads across Azure and colocated infrastructure.

Accelera Solutions

Terrill Andrews

Executive Vice President