Case Study: Florida Crystals achieves rapid 80‑day SAP cloud migration and cost savings with Virtustream

Florida Crystals - Customer Case Study

Florida Crystals Corporation, a large vertically integrated sugar producer behind brands like C&H and Domino, faced a massive IT challenge: more than 100 physical SAP systems (25+ production instances and dozens of nonproduction instances), multiple terabytes of data, legacy home‑grown apps and thousands of users across three countries. The company needed to virtualize and migrate this complex, nonvirtual SAP environment to the cloud without disrupting 24/7 development schedules or missing business‑driven deadlines tied to crop calendars.

Working with Virtustream, FCC ran a detailed discovery and test‑first plan, created a private multi‑tenanted cloud architecture, and used an “airlift” P2V approach (appliance-based conversions, shipped media, and bidirectional sync) plus rigorous mock cutovers to complete the on‑boarding in about 80 days. The move delivered measurable benefits: SAP performance rose (average ~30%, in some cases up to 50%), compute costs fell ~34% and storage/backup costs ~47%, disaster‑recovery RTO dropped to under an hour, and provisioning times shrank from weeks to hours—freeing IT to focus on new business initiatives.

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