Case Study: Dillon Gage achieves 40% IT cost reduction and improved availability with Microsoft Azure

Precious Metals Dealer Ups IT Reliability, Trims Costs by 40 Percent by Moving to Cloud

Dillon Gage, a Dallas-based precious metals distributor with about 100 employees and $3 billion in 2013 revenue, faced an aging, unreliable IT infrastructure centered in a single Addison datacenter that caused frequent outages and threatened the company’s ability to grow globally. The IT team needed higher availability and scalability but wanted to avoid the time and capital required to build and operate new primary and backup datacenters.

Dillon Gage migrated its core systems to Microsoft Azure—running customer-facing trading platforms on Azure PaaS and ERP, databases, and other critical apps on Azure IaaS—with support from Microsoft and partner RBA. The move delivered a highly available, globally extensible environment (with SQL AlwaysOn failover and cloud backups), avoided an estimated $1M datacenter build, cut ongoing IT costs by 40%, provided always-current SaaS productivity and CRM tools, and freed IT staff to focus on innovation and growth.

Dillon Gage

Tom Grounds

Chief Information Officer