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Customer Case Study 

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●  Data Center Service Provider 
●  Shelton, Connecticut 
●  70 Employees 

●  Preserved existing operational expertise 
●  Differentiated service by enabling higher 

application performance 

●  Gained flexibility to meet different customer 

requirements 

●  Prepared to offer new types of managed 

services 

 

IT Infrastructure Provider Builds High-Performance Data Center 

Cervalis implemented Nexus platform for industry-leading customer service and operational excellence. 

 

 

 

Cervalis provides IT infrastructure solutions, including managed hosting, managed security, managed storage, 

networking and telecommunications, business continuity and rapid recovery, and collocation. The company locates 

its data centers in strategic locations in the northeastern United States to offer customers high performance, high 

availability, and business resiliency.  

To handle business growth, Cervalis decided to build a third 150,000-square-foot data center in Passaic County, New 

Jersey, supplementing the existing facilities in Dutchess County, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. “We wanted a 

scalable switch platform that we could rely on for many years,” says Robert Carlson, vice president of solution design 

and delivery for Cervalis. “We also needed the technology to support emerging customer requirements, such as high 

performance for applications distributed across multiple servers, replicating virtual machines between data centers for 

business continuity, and hosting virtual desktops.” 

Cervalis found its solution in Cisco Data Center Business Advantage solutions, including the Cisco Nexus

®

 platform. 

“Cisco Nexus switches deliver leading performance and reliability, and our IT teams don’t have to learn an entirely 

new operating system because the NX-OS is very similar to the Cisco IOS Software they already know,” says Robert 

Crespi, vice president and chief information officer at Cervalis.  

In the New Jersey data center, Cervalis implemented a Cisco

®

 Nexus 7000 Switch in the core. In each customer 

server cage, Cervalis provisions the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage solutions that meet the business need, 

such as Cisco Nexus 5020 Switches, Cisco Nexus 2248 Fabric Extenders, Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control 

“Without the Cisco Nexus 2248, providing enough ports to meet the 
customer’s need would have been far more expensive.”