Immedion announced today that they were selected as the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider of choice for Charleston-based ROK Technologies. ROK Technologies, an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service licensee, provides Cloud-based ArcGIS application development, hosting and managed services. They serve customers throughout the nation and in a variety of industries from government to healthcare.

By offering ArcGIS in the Cloud, ROK Technologies is able to provide affordable and accessible GIS services to customers that may not have been able to afford them in the past. ROK customers use these tools to make data-driven decisions to improve the efficiency of their operations and deliver mission-critical information to decision-making officials. Immedion's Cloud, with built-in redundancies and high performance hybrid-cloud infrastructure, ensures that the data created and produced with ROK Technologies is not only always available, but also safe and secure.

Immedion is a premiere provider of data center services including Cloud, colocation and managed services. They recently announced the launch of their new Cloud Management Platform, giving their customers the ability to deploy and manage virtual services, monitor resource usage and provide on-demand resource elasticity from a single-pane-of-glass. Immedion operates seven enterprise-class data centers in Greenville, Columbia, Charleston, Rock Hill, Asheville and Cincinnati. ROK Technologies selected Immedion as their colocation provider in 2009 and experienced their reliability and dedication to their customers over the years.

"We know from experience that Immedion is dedicated to their customers," said ROK Technologies' Chief Technology Officer Jason Harris. "Their team of Cloud experts engineered a hybrid-cloud infrastructure for us that's secure, reliable, and manageable for our clients. We look forward to growing our partnership and trust Immedion to keep our services Always On."

"ROK Technologies has made a name for themselves as a leader in GIS services. We look forward to continuing to support such an excellent organization as they provide the necessary software to support their growing customer base throughout the nation," said Pat O'Brien, General Manager of Immedion's Charleston facility.