Case Study: Tier1 Inc. expands hosted-application offerings and secures a cost‑efficient private cloud with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

Tier1 Moves Rapidly Into Hosted Application Segment, Expands Business Offerings, and Ensures Secure Private Cloud

Tier1 Inc., a Pittsburgh-based Oracle consulting and managed-services firm with about 70 employees and nearly 300 clients, needed to expand beyond traditional managed services into hosted application and private-cloud offerings. The company’s goals were to provide secure, multi-tenant cloud hosting for customers across industries, reduce software licensing and hardware capital expenditures, and maintain strong security and availability for critical business applications.

By deploying Oracle’s Private Cloud Appliance and complementary Oracle technologies, Tier1 quickly launched full lifecycle hosting services and new revenue streams. The turnkey engineered system delivered a secure, highly available private cloud that reduced client licensing costs through Oracle Trusted Partitions, minimized Tier1’s CAPEX, supported diverse application environments, provided built-in disaster recovery and easy linear scaling, and allowed customers’ IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.

Tier1 Inc.

David Busch

CEO, Tier1 Inc