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Case Studies
- Customer: 37signals (Basecamp & HEY)
- Industry: SaaS
- Service(s): Colocation, Private Cloud
“The public cloud was a great place for overnight success to happen. But it wasn’t sustainable. The sharp peaks in growth made it clear that we had a potential hit on our hands, and that cloud wasn’t tenable long-term.”

- Customer: Burnham Nationwide
- Industry: Construction
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“Working with Deft is like having a consultancy baked into our tech support. It’s so helpful to have that full picture. We don’t need to go to multiple vendors, everyone’s speaking the same language.”
- Customer: CDW
- Industry: IT Services
- Service(s): Colocation, Remote Hands
“We’ve never had a request that Deft couldn’t meet. With Deft’s staff, we just hand it over.”
- Customer: Ars Technica
- Industry: Online Publishing
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“If we go down during something like Apple Liveblog, our users don’t come back.”
- Customer: Metra
- Industry: Public Sector
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“Innovations like these are possible because of the technical choices we’ve made.”
- Customer: PicsArt
- Industry: Mobile App
- Service(s): Colocation, Object Storage
“When a great app is getting developed and launched, the public cloud is perfect. Six months later when business is booming and the invoice is thousands of lines long— that’s where Deft shines.”
- Customer: Vizient
- Industry: Healthcare
- Service(s): Cloud Migration, Hybrid Cloud
“With Deft’s expertise, responsiveness, and flexibility, we were able to complete the server migration on time and on budget.”
- Customer: ActiveCampaign
- Industry: SaaS
- Service(s): Colocation, Managed Network
“Having Deft manage our network allows us to focus on what we know best.”
- Customer: Florence Corporation
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“We’re using public clouds in our manufacturing environment. That’s something we hadn’t anticipated — it’s something new Deft brought to the table. It’s made our manufacturing facility a lot more efficient.”
- Customer: Coastal Health District
- Industry: Public Sector
- Service(s): Hybrid Cloud, Managed Network, Disaster Recovery
“We have to provide continuous technical and patient services to our communities. Period.”
- Customer: Oral Roberts University
- Industry: Higher Education
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“The No. 1 benefit is peace of mind. From endpoint to endpoint, we’re able to test for capacity planning.”
- Customer: Foresite Healthcare
- Industry: Healthcare
- Service(s): Managed AWS
“AWS brings a maturity to our infrastructure that clients and prospects recognize and trust – and we can trust Deft.”
- Customer: Northeastern Illinois University
- Industry: Higher Education
- Service(s): Hybrid Cloud, Managed Network, Managed Backups
“The flexibility in Deft’s approach to solving problems is a strategic asset.”
- Customer: Rent Like A Champion
- Industry: Real Estate
- Service(s): Managed VMware Cloud
“When you’re about to premiere on ABC’s Shark Tank, you either nail it or you don’t, and it will be highly publicized if you don’t.”
- Customer: Verito
- Industry: IT Services
- Service(s): Managed VMware Cloud
“Providing excellent customer service is our top priority and we’ve found a partner with a similar mindset in Deft. Their service, support, and operations are rock solid.”
- Customer: Context Analytics
- Industry: Financial Services
- Service(s): Managed VMware Cloud, Managed Network, Colocation
“It’s cliché to say we can now focus only on our work, on our applications and research—but we can, and we do.”
- Customer: Seagate
- Industry: IT Services
- Partnership: Storage Vendor
“Seagate and Deft found a way to deliver, making what was seemingly impossible possible: meeting demand when many other organizations weren’t.”
- Customer: Web Development Company
- Industry: Software Development
- Service(s): AWS Migration
“We reduced operating costs by 25%.”
- Customer: Marketing Agency
- Industry: Marketing
- Service(s): Data Center Migration, Colocation, Disaster Recovery
“The opportunity to migrate our primary environment to Deft, along with the cost benefits, made this decision a no-brainer.”
- Customer: HealthStream
- Industry: Healthcare
- Service(s): Data Center Migration, Colocation
“They were able to deliver in a ridiculously quick amount of time. You couldn’t have asked for a partner to be more flexible and accommodating.”
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