Case Study: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. achieves 60% OPEX savings and scalable, capital-free IT infrastructure with Align

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. - Customer Case Study

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI), undergoing a major restructuring, needed a new, flexible and cost‑effective global network infrastructure to support changing technology needs — including reconfigured data centers, high‑performance servers and storage, IP telephony, VDI, application migrations, ITIL‑based support and a 24/7 NOC. LBHI engaged Align to provide an outsourced, rent‑style technology solution that avoided large up‑front capital expenditures.

Align delivered the solution in six months, installing data centers, server farms, networks, voice systems and an on‑site private cloud, then migrating nearly 1,000 users across 12 international locations with full replication to a disaster‑recovery site. Align’s independent, scalable infrastructure and per‑user support model eliminated equipment purchases and reduced OPEX by 60% — $36 million annually — while providing secure, accessible operations and 24/7 support.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.