Rebuilding the platform foundation for resilience and scale.
Network, compute, continuity, and operations designed to work as one dependable platform.
A global business waiting on an aging data center
A Southern California manufacturer of remote control and home automation products depended on a central ERP system to support its international operations. Factories in Brazil, China, and India, together with offices across North America and Europe, connected to a hosted data center in Texas.
That environment contained approximately 120 servers and virtual machines running on aging equipment and an outdated VMware platform. Staff across the business experienced slow ERP and system performance. Older point-to-point WAN and fiber connections added to the infrastructure that needed attention.
With operations running around the clock, the client could not accommodate an extended shutdown. Techhands needed to replace the underlying platform and relocate the workloads while keeping disruption to a tightly controlled window.
Build the destination before moving the business
Techhands designed a new data center environment in Southern California around Nutanix clusters and a 10 Gb network backbone. The project also included upgrading the VMware environment and modernizing multiple WAN and fiber links serving the company's offices and factories.
The new environment was established before workloads were moved from Texas. Building the destination first allowed the existing systems to continue serving the business while Techhands prepared the replacement platform.
Techhands then carried out live migration of the workloads into the new Nutanix-based environment. The transition was planned around the client's 24/7 operating requirements, with the remaining interruption confined to a few hours during a scheduled weekend window.
Improve the platform and the connections to it
Nutanix clusters formed the foundation of the new data center, replacing the aging hosted equipment with a platform designed for the company's server and application workloads.
The upgraded VMware environment modernized the virtualization layer supporting the server estate. VMware remained part of the new Nutanix-based design.
A 10 Gb backbone provided the network foundation inside the new data center. Alongside it, upgraded point-to-point WAN and fiber links improved connectivity from the distributed offices and manufacturing locations.
Live workload migration supported the move between the Texas and California environments. This approach kept most of the transition work outside the final outage window and limited the time users were without their systems.
Faster systems and a lower monthly operating cost
Following the move, overall ERP and systems performance improved by 55%, and reported system uptime reached 99.98%. The company gained a more dependable platform for its global operations, with the migration completed through only a few hours of planned weekend downtime.
The project replaced the previous data center and leased-server arrangement with a new platform investment. The financial comparison should consider hardware investment, recurring charges, and the ongoing operating model together.
By addressing the data center platform and site connectivity together, Techhands improved the infrastructure supporting everyday operations while reducing the recurring cost of maintaining the old environment.
