Case Study: Alaska Airlines achieves stronger security and lower migration costs with VirtaMove

How Alaska Airlines was able to proactively close potential security gaps by retiring unsupported operating systems

Alaska Airlines worked with VirtaMove to address a major legacy systems challenge: about 350 Windows servers were still running Windows Server 2003, an unsupported operating system that created security and compliance risk. Many of these servers hosted old applications, and the company no longer had the original install media or source files for them.

Using VirtaMove’s migration capabilities, Alaska Airlines was able to move these environments to a modern operating system and retire the unsupported systems. The result was improved security posture, removal of non-compliant environments from the audit schedule, and lower operational and migration costs, while Alaska Airlines’ infrastructure teams could focus on reducing tech debt and maintaining manageability.

Alaska Airlines

Michael Jude

Director of Infrastructure Engineering