Case Study: Crescent Communities achieves enhanced IT reliability, security and cost-effective disaster recovery with Flexential

Real Estate Company Boosts IT Reliability and Security with Colocation

Crescent Communities, a national real estate developer of single‑family, multifamily and commercial properties, faced rising IT demands after outgrowing its on‑premise data center. The company needed more reliable, secure and cost‑effective infrastructure—including disaster recovery, threat protection and flexible capacity—than it could afford to build and maintain in‑house, especially during office moves and equipment lifecycle changes.

Crescent outsourced infrastructure to Peak 10 + ViaWest, using colocation, Recovery Cloud DRaaS and Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention (MIDPS). The move delivered continuous data replication instead of weekly backups, faster DDoS mitigation (resolutions improved from seven to two minutes), improved quality of service, multi‑tenant disaster recovery economics, greater threat prevention and resolution, operational flexibility and overall peace of mind.

Crescent Communities

Dean Spencer

Vice President - Information Technology