Case Study: Zachry Corporation achieves increased IT agility and strategic focus with Rackspace Technology

Zachry Corporation boosts IT agility

Zachry Corporation, a 90‑year‑old leader in construction and engineering, needed to rebuild its IT after a 2007 reorganization but lacked a data center and found the operational burden of running business‑critical SAP and VMware environments was preventing IT from becoming a strategic partner. A brief attempt to run its own data center exposed hidden costs and operational complexity, distracting the team with “keeping the lights on” tasks.

Zachry migrated dev/test, disaster recovery and its SAP/VMware workloads to Rackspace Managed Colocation and Managed SAP, leveraging existing licenses while offloading hardware and day‑to‑day operations. The move delivered predictable, unit‑based costs, faster project delivery (including a critical four‑month launch), stronger vendor support through Rackspace’s Fanatical Support, and freed Zachry’s IT team to focus on strategic, business‑facing initiatives.

Zachry Corporation

Kevin Walters

Vice President and Chief Information Officer