Case Study: Leading Financial Services Firm Migrates VMware Workloads to GCP with RackWare
- nate6637
- Jul 18
- 2 min read
Customer Overview
A leading global financial services firm specializing in investment management, risk advisory, and wealth planning sought to modernize its IT infrastructure. With a growing customer base and increasing regulatory demands, the firm needed a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution to migrate its mission-critical VMware workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Business Challenge
The firm operated a large on-premises VMware environment, supporting real-time trading systems, customer analytics, and financial risk modeling. However, this legacy infrastructure presented several challenges:
Scalability Constraints: The on-prem environment struggled to support increasing data volumes and compute demands.
Operational Complexity: Managing and maintaining multiple VMware clusters required significant IT resources.
Cost Inefficiencies: High capital expenditures (CapEx) due to frequent hardware refresh cycles and maintenance.
Regulatory Compliance Needs: A secure, compliant cloud environment was essential to meet stringent financial industry regulations.
The firm needed a seamless, low-risk, and automated migration path to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) while ensuring minimal downtime and compliance with financial regulations.
Solution: RackWare’s Automated Migration to GCP
The firm partnered with RackWare to leverage its automation-driven migration platform. RackWare’s intelligent workload mobility solution enabled a seamless transition to GCP, with key capabilities including:
Automated Discovery & Assessment: Identified workload dependencies, optimal migration strategies, and right-sizing for GCP resources.
Live Sync for Near-Zero Downtime: Continuous data replication ensured up-to-date workloads on GCP before final cutover, minimizing disruption.
Cost & Performance Optimization: RackWare’s AI-driven insights helped optimize workloads for efficiency, reducing unnecessary resource consumption.
Regulatory Compliance Alignment: Built-in security and disaster recovery (DR) ensured compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and financial regulations.
Results & Business Impact
With RackWare’s automation platform, the financial firm migrated its VMware workloads to GCP three times faster than initial projections. Key benefits included:
50% Reduction in Infrastructure Costs – Lower operational and hardware expenses by moving to a cloud-based model.
99.99% System Availability – Ensured uninterrupted access to critical financial applications.
75% Faster Migration Completion – Cut migration time from 12 months to 3 months using automated workload mobility.
Enhanced Security & Compliance – Improved data protection and regulatory adherence with GCP’s robust security framework.
Conclusion
By leveraging RackWare’s automated migration solution, the firm successfully transitioned to a cloud-native architecture, improving scalability, security, and cost efficiency. The migration positioned the firm to adopt AI-powered financial analytics, advanced fraud detection, and realtime risk modeling, driving future innovation and growth.
About RackWare
RackWare provides an intelligent cloud mobility platform that automates migration, backup, and disaster recovery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its solutions enable enterprises to seamlessly transition workloads to the cloud with minimal risk, downtime, and cost.