Case Study: J.B. Hunt Transport achieves rapid, zero‑downtime cloud migration and 650+ hours freed with IBM Turbonomic

How J.B. Hunt assures app performance in hybrid cloud with IBM Turbonomic

J.B. Hunt Transport, a Fortune 500 transportation and logistics leader, needed a holistic way to manage growing cloud complexity as it rearchitected its J.B. Hunt 360 platform and moved workloads to public cloud. To avoid overprovisioning and manual firefighting, Robert Auten and his Cloud Operations team adopted IBM Turbonomic hybrid cloud cost optimization.

IBM Turbonomic delivered AI‑powered sizing recommendations and automated actions across VMware, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Azure and Google Cloud, automating non‑disruptive changes 24x7 and executing nearly 2,000 resizing actions that freed more than 650 hours in a year. Turbonomic also provided audit trails via ITSM webhooks, supported capacity planning, and helped J.B. Hunt migrate roughly 1,000 VMs, 90 Kubernetes clusters (915 nodes, ~27,000 pods) and 500 databases from Azure to Google Cloud in 35 business days with zero downtime, reducing waste and accelerating ongoing optimization.

J.B. Hunt Transport

Robert Auten

Senior Expert Software Engineer, Cloud Operations