Case Study: IBM SoftLayer customer cuts hosting costs and improves observability with KitRUM’s AWS migration

IBM SoftLayer - Customer Case Study

The customer, a large e-book and audiobook library, faced challenges with the physical hardware and limitations of their IBM SoftLayer hosting. They were concerned about potential downtime, high costs for redundancy, and a lack of in-house capacity for migration. The company needed a more reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution, which led them to partner with KitRUM for a migration to AWS.

KitRUM successfully executed a migration from IBM SoftLayer to an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The solution involved re-architecting the application for the AWS environment rather than a simple lift-and-shift, ensuring optimal performance and security. As a result, the client eliminated downtime, increased server observability by 51%, reduced operational costs by 38%, and achieved 45% in annual hosting savings, all while gaining a more stable and scalable infrastructure.

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