Case Study: Global Engineering Company achieves rapid cloud migration and reduced HPC run times (days to hours) with Equinix EPS Cloud

EPS Cloud helps a global engineering company accelerate migration to a scalable cloud infrastructure

A global engineering firm needed to deliver compute‑intensive modeling applications to employees worldwide 24/7 but was held back by separate, underutilized HPC islands that couldn’t scale and produced model run times of up to a day. With a data center lease expiring and a decision to move to Microsoft Azure and AWS (while retaining Equinix Cloud Exchange and Performance Hub), the company lacked the in‑house capacity and cloud expertise to complete a fast, reliable migration and sought a long‑term consulting partner.

Equinix Professional Services for Cloud (EPS Cloud) ran discovery workshops, created a three‑year migration roadmap, provided training, built initial Azure and AWS foundations, and validated performance with an HPC proof‑of‑concept. Using automated four‑week migration cycles and joint planning, 80% of workloads were moved to the cloud (the rest to Performance Hub), enabling model run times to drop to as little as an hour, meeting the lease deadline, cutting costs, reducing latency, centralizing compute resources, and delivering on‑demand access with plans for a future PaaS self‑service portal.