Case Study: American Water achieves rapid, low-risk workload migrations with NetIQ PlateSpin Migrate

American Water - Customer Case Study

American Water, which delivers water and wastewater services to about 16 million people across 35 states and parts of Canada, faced rapid data-center growth and many end-of-life servers. With mission-critical applications requiring a highly stable environment, the IT team had no way to move workloads between physical servers without rebuilding systems, and existing tools only supported physical-to-virtual migrations—making hardware refreshes slow, risky, and labor-intensive.

The company deployed PlateSpin Migrate to automate physical-to-physical and physical-to-virtual migrations. With features like IP reassignment, automated cutover and multi-OS support, American Water now migrates multiple workloads in hours or overnight instead of weeks, reducing time, cost and risk, enabling proactive hardware refreshes and accelerating virtualization; it plans to add PlateSpin Protect for disaster recovery.

American Water

Matthew Larson

Virtual Infrastructure Specialist, American Water