Case Study: Morrison Industrial Equipment achieves a quick, pain‑free cloud migration, $5,000/month savings and robust disaster recovery with US Signal

Morrison Industrial Equipment - Customer Case Study

Morrison Industrial Equipment, a forklift sales and service company with 20 locations across Michigan and Indiana and headquarters in Grand Rapids, faced flood risk to its on‑site data center and operated with a very lean IT team. Concerned about performance, downtime, and the complexity of moving both 35 virtual servers and a non‑virtualized IBM P series server, Morrison engaged US Signal to evaluate Enterprise Cloud, Cloud Migration, and Disaster Recovery as a Service with continuous data protection.

US Signal purchased and hosted an IBM P series server in its data center, built a hybrid multi‑tenant Enterprise Cloud, applied DRaaS with continuous protection, and executed a tightly documented, pre‑tested migration (servers kept in sync within 6–10 seconds) over a single maintenance window. The migration completed ahead of schedule with an RPO of 0, no unexpected downtime, and estimated savings of about $5,000 per month in labor and power, plus ongoing reduction in on‑site data center management and improved business continuity thanks to US Signal.

Morrison Industrial Equipment

Steve VanderZouwen

IT Manager