Case Study: Convergent Computing achieves 80% cost savings and ROI in less than nine months with Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

Moving secondary databases to Linux paid for itself in less than nine months

Convergent Computing Inc. (CCO), a technology consulting firm, needed a lower-cost way to run its secondary internal databases while staying current on Microsoft SQL Server 2017. The company wanted to move archived and lower-volume workloads off its more expensive Windows infrastructure and test Microsoft SQL Server on Linux for future customer recommendations.

Microsoft Corporation helped Convergent Computing migrate three internal applications to SQL Server 2017 on Linux using Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The move was completed in about four weeks, cut costs by 80 percent, and delivered ROI in less than nine months; CCO also validated high availability with Always On failover testing and expects to expand the platform to additional business applications.

Convergent Computing

Chris Amaris

Chief Technology Officer