Case Study: Oakland County, Michigan achieves flexible, scalable, low-latency cloud infrastructure with Equinix

Oakland County, Michigan - Customer Case Study

Oakland County, Michigan, a technology-forward local government running a shared G2G (Government-to-Government) Cloud Solutions platform, needed to scale its services by moving to AWS but faced limits from traditional infrastructure. County IT wanted cloud agility while retaining control over sensitive data, meeting audit/security requirements and ensuring high application performance — an Internet-based link between local storage and AWS proved too slow.

Blue River IT implemented NetApp Private Storage hosted in Equinix data centers with a private AWS Direct Connect link, giving Oakland County direct control of storage while using AWS compute on demand. The solution delivered advanced data management (snapshots, SnapMirror, FlexClone), faster restores (minutes instead of hours), automated DR across Equinix sites, rapid deployment on an Opex model, low latency and audit compliance — enabling scalable, high-performance cloud services and freeing IT staff to focus on innovation.

Oakland County, Michigan

Phil Bertolini

Deputy County Executive/CIO