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Executive Summary
Downtime, data loss, and regulatory requirements are constant concerns for Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), a world leader in lightweight composite technologies. Adding to the challenges for its lean IT department is CSP’s acquisition by Japan-based Teijin. With Teijin bringing over many of their businesses to the US, the IT staff is dealing with even more disparate IT systems, new capabilities and services that require IT support, and more locations to connect. However, CSP’s IT team has found relief from some of its resource challenges thanks to US Signal and its commitment to delivering exceptional service, as well as reliable IT solutions.
Business Challenge:
- Manage and/or implement new and disparate IT systems due to company acquisition
- Comply with J-SOX and GDPR
- Implement disaster recovery solution for existing business
- Implement and maintain reliable communications and networking between increasing number of company locations
- Augment IT staff and resources
US Signal Solution:
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- Backup as a Service
- Enterprise Cloud (Dedicated and flexible resource pools)
- Hosted Private Cloud
- MPLS, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and FastPath connectivity
- Technology assessments
- Reduced capital expenses
- Freed up IT resources
- Assistance in meeting J-SOX and GDPR compliance mandates
Business Results:
- Reduced capital expenses
- Freed up IT resources
- Assistance in meeting J-SOX and GDPR compliance mandates
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