Case Study: Ocean State Job Lot achieves scalable growth and business continuity with TierPoint hybrid cloud and colocation

Ocean State Job Lot Accommodates Future Business Expansion with Hybrid Cloud

Ocean State Job Lot, a discount retailer founded in 1977 with more than 100 stores across the Northeast, faced a growing IT risk as its centralized infrastructure became a single point of failure. Rapid store expansion and dependence on always-on connectivity created concerns about scalability, resiliency, backups and recovery, and the company needed a partner to reduce risk while supporting future growth.

Ocean State implemented a TierPoint-designed hybrid cloud and colocation solution that paired the retailer’s existing storage array with TierPoint-managed hosts in an N+1 cluster, plus replication, colocation, networking and disaster recovery services. The result was a flexible, cost-effective infrastructure that delivered business continuity (including successful failover during a corporate internet outage), easier scaling and predictable managed services—outcomes that earned strong third-party recognition and prompted talks to expand TierPoint services.

Ocean State Job Lot

Jeff Mehrmanesh

Infrastructure and Technology Manager