ECSI, Leader in the Education Industry, Completes Successful Data Center Relocation at Expedient Facility

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Jan 11, 2012, 08:29 ET

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ECSI, a leading end-to-end solutions provider for over 1,300 colleges and universities, announced the successful relocation of its data center with Expedient, Pittsburgh's largest hosting provider. The relocation will allow ECSI to improve technology infrastructure and maximize the experience and uptime for its users, their students and borrowers.

"The impetus for the relocation of our data center was to accommodate our swift current growth and support our forecasted growth," said Dan Frazier, Chief Operating Officer. "Our first responsibility is to our clients, and we take that very seriously. This data center relocation allows us to meet our expansion goals while providing the enhanced service levels our clients expect from ECSI."

The relocation will provide ECSI with a significant increase in physical hosting space as well as additional technical talent to support its 24x7 operation. Inside Expedient, ECSI has deployed Private Cloud technology by VMware, which enables resource scaling and provides an added layer of redundancy. Clients, along with their students and borrowers, will access ECSI applications over redundant public internet connections making sure access is always available.

"ECSI is a well-respected, quality client," said Expedient's Regional Vice President, Bryan Smith. "We fully understand that providing financial services across the education industry requires the highest level of security and compliance requirements. Expedient excels at meeting ECSI's stringent requirements."

About ECSI

ECSI provides a full range of customizable solutions in support of the entire life cycle of higher education and post-graduate financial services including loan servicing, account recovery, payment plans, business outsourcing and financial services. Founded in 1972, ECSI has consistently established itself as the leading provider and partner for the education industry. ECSI currently services over 1,300 colleges and universities offering a full suite of intuitive and cost effective solutions for virtually any type of loan. For more information, visit http://www.ecsi.net.

About Expedient

Expedient offer a wide range of managed services such as virtualization, cloud computing, remote backups, management of equipment, storage area networks and more. These proven managed services combined with reliable and redundant SAS70 compliant data centers enables them to deliver premier collocation, network and managed services solutions to enterprise, commercial, education and government entities. To learn more please log on to www.expedient.com, or call 877-570-7827, toll-free.

Contact:
Lori Carbonara – ECSI
VP, Marketing
724-302-7718
[email protected]

SOURCE ECSI