Case Study: Equity Trust Company achieves resilient network and application reliability and over $500,000 in savings with VMware SD-WAN

Equity Trust Company Sets High Standard For Network, Data, And Application Reliability To Protect Customer Confidence

Equity Trust Company is a financial services firm that helps more than 175,000 clients manage alternative investments and custodial IRAs, holding roughly $25 billion in assets. As it expanded offerings like the myEQUITY platform and digital-currency custody, the company needed a scalable, secure, and easy-to-manage IT infrastructure to maintain compliance and customer confidence while supporting reliable access to data and cloud applications with a small IT team.

Equity Trust implemented a software‑defined Virtual Cloud Network using VMware NSX Data Center, NSX SD‑WAN by VeloCloud, VMware Horizon, and vSphere, leveraging rapid-deploy services and training for fast rollout. The changes delivered immediate benefits—more than $500,000 in CapEx/OpEx savings, elimination of MPLS and a firewall platform, over $150,000 saved by removing physical load balancers, and avoidance of downtime costs of about $25,000 per hour during fiber outages—while improving security, application availability for 400+ employees, and customer confidence.

Equity Trust Company

John Moses

Former Director of Enterprise Technology