Case Study: LAMCO achieves scalable, cost-effective wind-down of Lehman assets with Bluelock Cloud

LAMCO Leverages Flexibility and Scalability of Bluelock’s Cloud to Manage and Wind-Down Assets of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc

LAMCO, formed to manage Lehman Brothers’ remaining assets after the firm’s 2008 collapse, faced the urgent challenge of building an enterprise-grade IT infrastructure from scratch. With no data centers or servers transferred in the sales of Lehman’s businesses, LAMCO needed a solution that could handle peak-day capacity immediately, then scale down over time—without large upfront capital or accurate long-term demand forecasts.

After an RFP process, LAMCO chose Bluelock’s VMware-based public cloud for its flexibility, competitive pricing, VMware compatibility and expert support. The migration (begun in January 2009) met its goals despite actual needs far exceeding estimates (over 65 TB migrated vs. an initial 13 TB estimate); Bluelock’s environment allowed LAMCO to add compute and storage on demand, support ongoing operations, and repurpose the platform for datacenter overflow and third-party portfolio services.

LAMCO

James Johnson

Senior VP of Global Technology Services