Case Study: a global ICT manufacturer modernises factory IT and exits VMware with Nordcloud and Azure Local

a global ICT manufacturer exits VMware at all factory sites with Nordcloud

A global ICT manufacturer faced rising costs and limited visibility from its legacy VMware-based factory IT systems. They needed a modern, cloud-enabled solution for latency-sensitive production lines but could not move fully to the public cloud. Partnering with Nordcloud, they chose Azure Local as their strategic hybrid platform.

Nordcloud designed and implemented an Azure Local-based hub-and-spoke architecture, enabling a full VMware exit. The solution provided unified cloud monitoring and governance via Azure Arc, giving factory teams unprecedented infrastructure transparency. The results, delivered by Nordcloud, included significant cost savings by avoiding VMware licensing hikes, cloud-enabled operations across all global factories, and a reusable blueprint for future sites.