About the customer
Industry:Manufacturing
Faced with the rising costs and performance limitations of aging physical servers, the customer wanted to modernize their core computing environment. To support long-term growth and operational needs, they worked with Cloud Kinetics to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud.
Challenge
The customer relied on aging physical servers and on-premises virtual machine (VM) infrastructure. This setup created several operational hurdles:
Performance degradationHardware reached its end-of-life, leading to slower processing
High costsHigh maintenance expenses for hardware, licensing and data centre operations
Scalability limitsDifficulty in scaling resources to support new applications or fluctuating workloads
Operational riskManual provisioning slowed down deployments, while a lack of centralized monitoring made it difficult to resolve performance issues
Solution
Cloud Kinetics conducted a comprehensive assessment of the customer’s existing VM environments, workload dependencies, and performance requirements. A structured and efficient migration plan was implemented using:
- Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine: To facilitate the move from on-premises to the cloud.
- Google Cloud Compute Engine: To provide a scalable and stable computing environment. The Cloud Kinetics Migration Framework for Google Cloud was used to ensure the transition followed technical best practices.
Success Metrics
The customer’s IT team can now focus on innovation and business enablement instead of maintaining legacy infrastructure, resulting in improved reliability and greater agility across their technology ecosystem.
Following the migration, the customer realized significant benefits:
30–50% cost savings
Significant reduction in infrastructure and data centre expenses.
Faster deployment
Accelerated provisioning and deployment cycles for new applications
Operational efficiency
Lowered the manual burden on the IT team
Increased stability
Improved performance and reliability through centralized monitoring and logging
The migration moved the customer away from legacy infrastructure maintenance. The IT team now focuses on business enablement and innovation, supported by a stable and agile technology environment.
