Founded: 1969

Headquarters: Austin, TX

Industry: Education Services

Service Type:Colocation | Managed Hosting

Private Clouds | Hybrid Hosting

Website: compasslearning.com

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Compass Learning is a leading provider of personalized education technology solutions for grades K-12, which helps students achieve success through differentiated instruction, formative assessment and response to intervention. Analyzing learning patterns from insights built across millions of records, Compass Learning’s software solutions provide a customized learning path for students to navigate. This forms an optimal learning experience, where a student’s education is enhanced by strengthening weaknesses with highly attuned curriculum.

Partnering with educators from over 10,000 schools across the United States, Compass Learning ensures that students achieve record academic results with learning acceleration software which combines a rigorous instructional approach and actionable data with engaging digital content.

Data gathering and analytics is at the root of Compass Learning’s ability to provide their customized learning acceleration software. However, as the company expanded their suite of software and service solutions and their user base soared, their ability to perform these tasks became hindered. Compass Learning had outgrown its colocation environment, both in terms of physical equipment and

bandwidth allocations, and sought the help of a data center provider to support their business for new phases of growth.

With heavily animated, graphics-based interfaces, Compass Learning was in search of a provider that could deliver the high levels of bandwidth needed to support its applications, but went beyond just power, ping and environment. The company was in search of a partner with expertise in offering a variety of data center services, and one that would back them with around-the-clock, hands-on support. Although Compass Learning employed an in-house staff of IT...

“Before working with OnRamp, our IT

environment could only accommodate

5,000 student-users. Today, we are

able to routinely serve 65,000

concurrent users with reliable access

to our suite of services.These

untethered performance capabilities

have enabled our business to make

greater strides in the education sector

while furthering our growth and

success as a business.”

Compass Learning required greater agility as they continued their rapid growth trajectory. The decision to house their IT infrastructure with OnRamp, was largely due to the data center provider’s ability to blend colocation with cloud delivered services as part of a hybrid hosting solution backed by Full7Layer Support from OnRamp’s onsite team of engineers.

Deployed from the redundant, reliable and secure infrastructure of OnRamp’s enterprise-class data center facilities, OnRamp’s hybrid hosting solutions combine colocation, secure private clouds and cloud-delivered services which include managed backups, managed devices, managed storage and managed security services. The ability to mix and match multiple data center services offers a level of customization that is unlike any other provider. And, with around-the-clock, Full7Layer Support from onsite engineers, capable of assisting customers all the way through the application layer, OnRamp helps customers build, deploy and maintain their IT infrastructure both in and outside the rack.

Compass Learning initially sought the help of OnRamp’s technical team to right-size their existing colocation environment leveraging virtualization and EMC SAN storage to create a hybrid

computing solution. OnRamp has also served as an extension of Compass Learning’s in-house IT staff by providing hands-on support as well as advanced intelligence and monitoring solutions to help Compass Learning strategically and flexibly scale their hosted environment in response to the company’s growth.

“The technical expertise and capabilities of OnRamp’s engineers played perfectly to the strengths of my team,” stated Compass Learning’s Director of IT Joe Hayden. “It was clear, early on, that OnRamp understood performance, not just in terms of capacity, but also in regard to inputs and outputs while providing their technical recommendations. Where my team was limited in experience with load balancing and high-speed data storage, OnRamp excelled. Through their guidance they were able to help us build a fully redundant, dedicated environment to maintain our customer-facing servers – which are the lifeblood of our organization.”

Hayden went on to state that, “before working with OnRamp, our IT environment could only accommodate 5,000 student-users. Today, we are able to routinely serve 65,000 concurrent users with reliable access to our suite of services. These untethered performance capabilities have enabled our business to make greater strides in the education sector while furthering our growth and success as a business.”

Compass Learning's hybrid hosting environment, housed within OnRamp's

state-of-the-art data center facilities, provides greater control over the growth of their IT operations to support the functionality of their software solutions. Integrating OnRamp's private cloud and cloud delivered services with Compass Learning's existing colocation environment has allowed the company to leverage the economic and scalability benefits of virtualization and cloud computing while enhancing their environment to improve performance and prepare for future success.

"Hybrid hosting empowers businesses with the ability to weigh the importance of scalability, security and cost, to choose the appropriate technology to meet their IT needs," stated OnRamp Founder Chad Kissinger. "The ability to build upon a business' legacy IT equipment alleviates the requirement of being bound by prior IT decisions and opens the doors to an enhanced computing environment capable of supporting a business’ data center mission."

IT CHALLENGE

- Joe Hayden, Director of IT

OnRamp Customer Case StudyCompass Learning

professionals, the company needed guidance on a number of topics related to virtualization, improved data storage methodologies and load balancing for their production environments.

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- Joe Hayden, Director of IT

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Data gathering and analytics is at the root of Compass Learning’s ability to provide their customized learning acceleration software. However, as the company expanded their suite of software and service solutions and their user base soared, their ability to perform these tasks became hindered. Compass Learning had outgrown its colocation environment, both in terms of physical equipment and

bandwidth allocations, and sought the help of a data center provider to support their business for new phases of growth.

With heavily animated, graphics-based interfaces, Compass Learning was in search of a provider that could deliver the high levels of bandwidth needed to support its applications, but went beyond just power, ping and environment. The company was in search of a partner with expertise in offering a variety of data center services, and one that would back them with around-the-clock, hands-on support. Although Compass Learning employed an in-house staff of IT...

“The technical expertise and capabilities of OnRamp’s engineers

played perfectly to the strengths of my team.”

Compass Learning required greater agility as they continued their rapid growth trajectory. The decision to house their IT infrastructure with OnRamp, was largely due to the data center provider’s ability to blend colocation with cloud delivered services as part of a hybrid hosting solution backed by Full7Layer Support from OnRamp’s onsite team of engineers.

Deployed from the redundant, reliable and secure infrastructure of OnRamp’s enterprise-class data center facilities, OnRamp’s hybrid hosting solutions combine colocation, secure private clouds and cloud-delivered services which include managed backups, managed devices, managed storage and managed security services. The ability to mix and match multiple data center services offers a level of customization that is unlike any other provider. And, with around-the-clock, Full7Layer Support from onsite engineers, capable of assisting customers all the way through the application layer, OnRamp helps customers build, deploy and maintain their IT infrastructure both in and outside the rack.

Compass Learning initially sought the help of OnRamp’s technical team to right-size their existing colocation environment leveraging virtualization and EMC SAN storage to create a hybrid

computing solution. OnRamp has also served as an extension of Compass Learning’s in-house IT staff by providing hands-on support as well as advanced intelligence and monitoring solutions to help Compass Learning strategically and flexibly scale their hosted environment in response to the company’s growth.

“The technical expertise and capabilities of OnRamp’s engineers played perfectly to the strengths of my team,” stated Compass Learning’s Director of IT Joe Hayden. “It was clear, early on, that OnRamp understood performance, not just in terms of capacity, but also in regard to inputs and outputs while providing their technical recommendations. Where my team was limited in experience with load balancing and high-speed data storage, OnRamp excelled. Through their guidance they were able to help us build a fully redundant, dedicated environment to maintain our customer-facing servers – which are the lifeblood of our organization.”

Hayden went on to state that, “before working with OnRamp, our IT environment could only accommodate 5,000 student-users. Today, we are able to routinely serve 65,000 concurrent users with reliable access to our suite of services. These untethered performance capabilities have enabled our business to make greater strides in the education sector while furthering our growth and success as a business.”

Compass Learning's hybrid hosting environment, housed within OnRamp's

state-of-the-art data center facilities, provides greater control over the growth of their IT operations to support the functionality of their software solutions. Integrating OnRamp's private cloud and cloud delivered services with Compass Learning's existing colocation environment has allowed the company to leverage the economic and scalability benefits of virtualization and cloud computing while enhancing their environment to improve performance and prepare for future success.

"Hybrid hosting empowers businesses with the ability to weigh the importance of scalability, security and cost, to choose the appropriate technology to meet their IT needs," stated OnRamp Founder Chad Kissinger. "The ability to build upon a business' legacy IT equipment alleviates the requirement of being bound by prior IT decisions and opens the doors to an enhanced computing environment capable of supporting a business’ data center mission."

SOLUTION

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professionals, the company needed guidance on a number of topics related to virtualization, improved data storage methodologies and load balancing for their production environments.