Case Study: Christie's achieves seamless single-event data center migration and 60% footprint reduction with Align

Christie's - Customer Case Study

Christie's, the storied British auction house with 1,800+ employees and $7B in 2018 sales, needed to relocate its production data center from Long Island to central New Jersey in a single move over the week of Christmas. Facing a compressed timeline driven by lease expiration, largely end-of-life hardware, and incomplete application dependency data, Christie's engaged Align to lead the migration and modernization effort, using ServiceNow as the CMDB of record and deploying new Cisco ACI networking in the target site.

Align conducted a current-state assessment with custom application profiles, planned the migration methodology, designed the new data center (cabinet layout, power and cabling), procured equipment, and executed the build-out and single-event cutover. Align’s Migrations & Cloud team completed the move on time and on budget with zero business impact, delivering a 60% reduction in data center footprint, 30% fewer cabinets/racks, ~25% fewer devices, and the relocation of 150 applications (including six high‑criticality apps), while using a custom web tool to provide full transparency to Christie's.

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