Case Study: Weichert Lead Network achieves 60% website operating cost savings and unprecedented scalability with Microsoft Azure

Independent realtor discovers that the best place to move is to the cloud

Weichert Realtors, the largest independent realty brokerage in the U.S. with more than 12,000 agents across 38 states, faced high costs and operational complexity from on‑premises infrastructure—managing massive image stores (≈200 million photos), large searchable email datasets, costly SAN contracts, limited scalability for weichert.com, and no practical disaster‑recovery solution.

The company migrated its applications and data to Microsoft Azure—using Azure SQL Database, Blob and Table Storage, Azure Search, VMs and PaaS services—re‑architecting data so highly searched items live in SQL and bulk objects in NoSQL storage. The move delivered unprecedented scalability, faster CRM search, easier testing and true geo‑redundant disaster recovery, cut website operating costs by 60%, and reduced key database size from over 80 GB to under 10 GB.

Weichert Lead Network

Joe Testa

Vice President