Case Study: HCL America achieves on‑budget, ahead‑of‑schedule hyper‑convergence migration and 60% less downtime with OpenText PlateSpin Migration Factory

PlateSpin Migration Factory delivers an on-budget and ahead-of-schedule move to hyper-convergence platform with minimum business disruption

HCL America helped a Canadian integrated communications provider prepare for aggressive growth by migrating its legacy physical infrastructure to a hyper‑converged, software‑defined environment. The project required an “anywhere‑to‑anywhere” automated migration of 2,500 servers across multiple operating systems and database versions, completed within a seven‑month window with minimal business disruption.

HCL selected OpenText PlateSpin Migration Factory for its broad OS support, high‑speed transfers, Server Sync and integrated testing, and worked with OpenText to execute the move. The team migrated 500+ business‑critical servers in 12 days, finished the overall project a month ahead of schedule and within budget, and delivered roughly 80% savings in power/space/hardware and about a 60% reduction in downtime versus traditional migration approaches.

HCL America

Polu Srinivas

Transition and Transformation Director