Case Study: TIC Gums achieves resilient, scalable IT to ensure food quality and consistency with Expedient’s On‑Site Private Cloud

TIC Gums Uses Expedient’s On-Site Private Cloud to Ensure Food Quality and Consistency for the Nation’s Leading Consumer Packaged Goods Companies

TIC Gums, a century-old leader in hydrocolloid texture and stability solutions, faced an aging, comingled on‑premises IT infrastructure that limited scalability, slowed change control, and left the small IT team stretched thin. With new public‑company requirements (SOX) and FDA expectations, Director of IT Brian Hensley sought a hybrid approach to decouple business and manufacturing applications, add disaster recovery capability, and offload routine operations — ultimately engaging Expedient and its On‑Site Private Cloud and managed services.

Expedient implemented a lift‑and‑shift On‑Site Private Cloud with a secondary private cloud POD offsite, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and managed services (backups, firewall, push‑button DR, two‑factor authentication, VPN). Using hypervisor replication and software‑defined networking, TIC Gums began an incremental migration (projected within 18 months), gained on‑site test/dev capacity, 24x7 availability, improved compliance (SOX/FDA), and operational cost control — while Expedient’s managed model freed TIC Gums’ team to focus on ERP upgrades and business initiatives.

TIC Gums

Brian Hensley

Director of IT