Green Cloud and Accordant to Provide 2000 Virtual Desktops to ESA
August 27, 2014
Greenville, SC – Green Cloud Technologies, a Cloud technology solutions provider, and Accordant Technology Inc., a managed service provider and partner, announced a new five-year technology services agreement to implement private cloud infrastructure for Educational Services of America (ESA), one of the nation’s leading providers of behavior therapy and special education programs for children and young adults.
The partnership supports ESA’s strategy to drive development of new programs with private cloud infrastructure to support more than 2000 Citrix-based Windows desktops.
“For ESA, scalable infrastructure and information systems allow for efficiency in developing new programs, all of which are tailored to meet the needs of individual school districts and student populations,” said Tim Tyler, president of Accordant Technology Inc. “The partnership between Green Cloud and Accordant will provide ESA with full management of their environment as well as more flexibility at a competitive cost.”
ESA will move to Green Cloud’s new private cloud infrastructure. This latest solution suite is extremely flexible and scalable and fully customized and configured based on a customer’s needs. Options include native or high availability cluster hosting, starting as small as 96GIG/RAM and scaling to meet the size the enterprise demands.
In addition, they can be coupled with shared or dedicated storage, at the host or SAN level, with SATA, SAS or SSD. All Microsoft OS licenses can be included as well as SPLA products such as SQL or SharePoint.
“Today’s announcement is an example of how leading organizations are utilizing cloud technology to gain competitive advantage,” said Shay Houser, CEO of Green Cloud Technologies. “Clients today are looking for IT partners who can understand and help drive their business with a focus on innovation and support.”
ABOUT GREEN CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES
Headquartered in Greenville, S.C., Green Cloud Technologies is a Cloud solutions provider dedicated to providing channel partners and dealers with turnkey Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. With channel-only distribution, Green Cloud enables value-added resellers, managed service providers, and telephony providers to market an expanding portfolio of virtual server, server restoration and recovery solutions. Led by a team of industry veterans that helped found NuVox Communications, Green Cloud operates world-class data center facilities with industry-leading technology platforms, including VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). More information may be found at www.gogreencloud.com.
ABOUT ACCORDANT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Accordant is an innovative technology consulting firm located in Brentwood, Tennessee focused on Virtualization, Application Delivery, Mobility, and Hosting. We leverage Citrix Systems and RES Software to provide our clients with best-of-breed technologies and the ability to apply them to their individual business models.
ABOUT ESA
Educational Services of America (ESA) is one of the nation’s leading providers of behavior therapy and alternative and special education programs for children and young adults. Through its three divisions, ESA offers children and young people the opportunity to create successful, independent futures by providing behavioral and academic supports to help them reach their full potential. ESA’s divisions are: Early Autism Project, Ombudsman Educational Services, and Spectrum Center Schools and Programs. ESA partners with more than 250 public school districts in 23 states to serve 13,500 students each year in more than 160 schools and programs. More information can be found at http://www2.gogreencloud.com/
