Case Study: Scheid Vineyards achieves near-100% uptime and disaster-proof infrastructure with Microsoft Azure

Harvesting the Potential of Scheid Vineyards

Scheid Vineyards is a 44‑year‑old, medium‑sized winery in the United States with ten estate vineyards that relies on a complex mix of systems—weather and frost monitoring, irrigation control, soil analysis and the VinPoint ERP—to optimize harvests. Because single decisions around weather events can have million‑dollar impact, continuous system availability is critical, yet their IT team hadn’t scaled with the business and they faced tight deployment windows and exposure to outages and security incidents.

To address this, UXC Eclipse and eMazzanti Technologies moved VinPoint and supporting infrastructure to Azure Virtual Machines and implemented Azure Site Recovery with Hyper‑V, plus managed monitoring and services. The cloud solution delivered the scalability, faster migrations and near‑100% uptime they needed, protected Azure workloads during an on‑premises virus attack, and left Scheid confident its systems will support timely, efficient harvest operations.

Scheid Vineyards

Tom Hornick

CIO