Case Study: Hess Corporation enables billion‑dollar divestment by migrating enterprise IT to the cloud with Equinix EPS Cloud

Leading global energy company successfully enables billion dollar divestment by migrating entire enterprise IT suite to the cloud

Hess Corporation, a global independent energy company, decided in 2013 to divest its downstream businesses and needed to separate and deliver a fully operational IT environment to the buyer on a tight timeline. Hess IT faced the challenge of moving hundreds of legacy systems and data to a transferable platform quickly, securely and without time to redesign applications.

Working with Equinix Professional Services for Cloud, Hess chose AWS and migrated about 300 servers using VPC, Direct Connect, EC2/EBS storage (≈500 TB), snapshots to S3/Glacier, CloudWatch monitoring and virtualized appliances. The cloud-first approach enabled rapid provisioning and cloning of environments, delivered production on AWS in January 2014 and completed the handoff in February — a six-month project that cut deployment time in half, minimized security risk with MFA and demonstrated a scalable model for future cloud adoption.

Hess Corporation

Jim McDonald

Lead Architect