Case Study: Shapiro achieves push-button disaster recovery and private cloud agility with Expedient

Shapiro Delivers Imports and Exports Around the World with Expedient’s Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Shapiro, a third‑generation, family‑owned logistics and customs brokerage, needed to move from self‑managed data centers to a private cloud and robust disaster recovery so its small IT team could focus on the Shapiro 360° application and new automation. Seeking a compliance‑forward IaaS partner that could provide private cloud, managed services (backups, firewalls, VPN) and an easy DR solution, Shapiro selected Expedient after evaluating national and public cloud providers.

Expedient delivered a private cloud, managed services and its Push Button DR (using VMware NSX) to replicate workloads and networking across geographically diverse data centers — with a third site for backups — enabling complete network failover without IP or DNS changes. Expedient’s solution removed hardware management, automated disaster recovery, improved availability and compliance, and freed Shapiro’s IT team to focus on innovation while benefiting from Expedient’s local data centers, security expertise and operational support.

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Bob Kimmel

Director of Information Technology