Case Study: Cigna achieves $3M annual savings with Align data center consolidation

Cigna saves $3M per year with Align data center consolidation

Cigna, a multinational managed healthcare and insurance company, faced a challenge to reduce its corporate real estate footprint and operational expenses following its acquisition of HealthSpring. The company needed to consolidate and close two newly acquired data centers to avoid colocation costs. Cigna looked to the vendor Align to develop an overall strategy and data center consolidation program.

Align planned and delivered a full migration and shutdown of the HealthSpring data centers, which included application mapping, workload migration, and decommissioning legacy IT infrastructure. The Align team executed twenty-five migration events over five months. This solution was delivered on time and under budget, saving Cigna over $3 million per annum by eliminating the associated data center costs.

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