Case Study: Heifer International migrates 110 virtual machines to AWS in 2 months with Effectual

Heifer International Engages Effectual for Rapid Data Center Evacuation to VMware Cloud on AWS, Resulting in Successful Migration of 110 Virtual Machines in 2 Months

Heifer International, a global nonprofit working to end hunger and poverty, faced a non-negotiable deadline to evacuate its data center after the facility was sold. They needed to migrate over 110 virtual machines and 70TB of production data in under two months to avoid jeopardizing their worldwide operations. After a previous migration effort with another company failed, Heifer was recommended by AWS to engage Effectual to manage this critical cloud migration to AWS.

Effectual executed the rapid migration, swiftly overcoming a unforeseen technical issue with the Citrix environment to keep the project on track. The vendor successfully migrated and operationalized all 110 VMs and data within the two-month deadline with zero operational disruption. The results included 100% of workloads migrated on time, significant cost savings from discontinuing Citrix, and no additional costs beyond what was planned, ensuring the continuity of Heifer's vital mission.

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