Case Study: a financial services organization reduces virtualization costs with Burwood Group’s VMware-to-Hyper-V migration

Lower Virtualization Costs Without Disrupting Operations

A financial services organization faced a significant increase in VMware licensing costs, threatening the value of its existing and still-capable infrastructure. To address this challenge without disruption, they partnered with Burwood Group to execute a migration from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V.

Burwood Group implemented a phased migration using Veeam to move workloads between hypervisors, which preserved the customer's existing Dell servers, DataCore storage, Citrix environment, and ExaGrid backup. This solution allowed the business to continue normal operations throughout the transition, experiencing only limited, planned downtime. The completed migration successfully reduced virtualization licensing costs by leveraging already-owned Microsoft licenses and extended the life of the customer's hardware investments.