Expedient Franklin

Operating Company

Expedient is a provider of cloud and data center infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with local operations in Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Memphis, TN and Pittsburgh, PA.

Expedient History

• Sep 2001 Founded as US VoiceData. (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Dec 2001 Acquired RMRC. (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Apr 2002 Acquired Expedient. (Cleveland, South Florida)
• May 2002 Acquired Yipes Markets. (Boston, Miami, PIttsburgh)
• Feb 2003. Acquired 6 Verio Markets.(Ohio, Tampa, Sacramento, Syracuse, Topeka)
• Jun 2003. Acquired APK. (Northeast Ohio)
• Oct 2003 Acquired Stargate. (Pittsburgh, Erie and Hagerstown, MD)
• Oct 2005 Acquired by Continental Broadband, a Landmark Communications Company
• Feb 2007 Acquired Data Center business of SafeCore (Boston, MA)
• Jan 2007 Expanded into Indianapolis via our sister company, nFrame
• Feb 2008 Over $1 million in expansion in Cleveland
• May 2008 Expedient expands to 2nd data center in Pittsburgh (Allegheny Center Mall)
• Aug 2008 Invests in a $4.8 Million build of 2nd data center (Cleveland)
• Aug 2008 Became PCI-DSS compliant through self-attestation
• Dec 2008 All offices become interconnected with a 10GB fiber backbone
• Oct 2009 Opened 2nd Data center (Cleveland)
• Dec 2009 Launch Operations Support Center (OSC)
• Dec 2010 Opened first Columbus data center- 14,000 square feet
• Jan 2011 Expand Boston Data Center by 3,600 square feet
• Feb-Jul 2011 Multi million dollar power plant upgrade (Cleveland and Pittsburgh)
• Dec 2011 Expansion of 2nd Baltimore Data center- 10,000 additional square feet
• Apr 2012 Expansion of 152 Cleveland data center- 7,000 additional square feet
• Nov 2013 Second Baltimore Data Center opened in Owings Mills area – 21,000 square feet
• Dec 2013 Expansion of Pittsburgh ACM Data center- additional 8,000 square feet for a total of 30,000 square feet of space
• Feb 2014 Expedient named to CRN top data center list for second year in a row
• Sept 2014 Announcement of 2nd Columbus Data Center in Dublin, Ohio to be built from the ground up
• Oct 2014 Announcement of 7th market, Memphis, TN with an open date of mid-year 2015
• Jan 2015 151 NEO facility data center expansion completed – 6,000 sq ft added
• July 2015 Opened First Memphis Data Center
• Nov 2015 Opened Second Columbus Data Center in Dublin, OH
• Nov 2015 Achievement of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Attestation of Compliance (AOC) for Report on Compliance (ROC) from Qualified Security Assessor (QSA)
• March 2016 Expansion of Boston data center (8,000 sq. ft.)
• July 2016 Offers SlimLine Cage for colocation
• August 2016 Offers Push Button DR 2.0 with Software Defined Networking
• September 2016 Offers On-Site Private Cloud with Disaster Recovery as a Service
• June 2017 Receives recognition in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service
• Receives recognition as a Top 10 MSP Worldwide from MSP Mentor
• December 2017 Expansion of Pittsburgh ACM (Nova Place) data center (10,000 sq. ft.)
• Expansion of Indianapolis data center (3,500 sq. ft.)
• February 2018 Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 list
• May 2018 Named Zerto’s Growth Partner of the Year – Cloud Services Provider
• June 2018 Named #7 managed services provider in the world on the MSP 501 Completed network backbone upgrade to 100 Gbp/s
• July 2018 Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service