Case Study: Western Washington University achieves 50% licensing cost savings and 25% reduced power consumption with OpenText Carbonite Migrate

Carbonite Migrate instrumental in platform and support consolidation resulting in 50% cost savings and 25% reduced power consumption

Western Washington University, a large public university in Bellingham known for its sustainability leadership, needed to consolidate its hyperconverged IT platform to cut costs and reduce its physical footprint. Facing rising vendor costs and a lean IT staff, the university had to migrate more than 250 workloads (over 400 virtual machines, ~120 TB) to Microsoft Azure Stack HCI without business disruption or risk.

Using OpenText Carbonite Migrate with Carbonite professional services, the IT team automated and orchestrated near-zero-downtime migrations across diverse Linux, Windows, containerized and database workloads. The move reduced virtualization hosts by 20%, cut power consumption by 25%, delivered over 50% savings in licensing costs, and completed the migration quickly with minimal impact to users.

Western Washington University

Jon Junell

IT Associate Director and Principal IT Architect