Case Study: Yamaha saves $500,000 annually with 2nd Watch

Yamaha - Customer Case Study

Yamaha was spending too much time replacing leased hardware, handling routine maintenance, and buying 30% more capacity than needed to ensure performance and uptime. The company wanted its IT staff to spend 70% of their time on new initiatives and only 30% on maintenance, but that was not happening. Yamaha selected 2nd Watch to help move away from its internal hosting setup and reduce infrastructure risk and costs.

2nd Watch migrated Yamaha’s production systems to AWS and continues to manage the environment, including availability zones for replication and disaster recovery, backup design, automation, and AWS configuration. The move freed Yamaha’s IT team from tasks like server maintenance and hardware rotation, and it now takes days to prepare an environment for a new application instead of weeks. Yamaha projected annual savings of $500,000 through AWS and 2nd Watch.

Yamaha

Vimal Thomas

VP, Information Technology Division