Outcomes
- Migration to AWS completed in 6-8 minutes per workload.
- 40% faster phased migration with zero customer or operational impact.
- End-to-end visibility and test recovery ensured confidence before complete migration.
- Enabled single-person orchestration of large-scale migration.
- Post-migration cost and performance optimization on AWS.
Client Bio
A global technology leader operating across aerospace, defense, and digital infrastructure sectors sought to modernize its IT landscape. With complex, hybrid workloads distributed across regions, the company required a simple, reliable, and predictable way to migrate to AWS - without downtime or the need for extensive, multi-team coordination.
Situation
The organization found traditional migration tools to be cumbersome and time-consuming. The process demanded manual intervention, multiple teams, and complex scripting. The company's goal was to achieve a simplified, test-driven migration with clear visibility into every workload, including the ability to perform test recoveries before migration to ensure full validation before cutover.
Impact
Without Datamotive, the migration would have required extensive manpower, longer timelines, and potential downtime. The company wanted the confidence to execute migrations independently without external dependency, while ensuring no customer or business impact during the transition.
Solution
Datamotive's solution enabled end-to-end orchestration and pre-migration test recoveries, allowing the enterprise to validate outcomes before going live. Workloads were migrated in just 6-8 minutes, with no impact on customers or operations. The platform's hypervisor-agnostic flexibility and self-service simplicity empowered a single engineer to manage the entire migration process. Post-migration, the enterprise leveraged Datamotive's cost and performance optimization capabilities, ensuring continued operational efficiency on AWS.