Case Study: Japan Weather Association achieves a secure, cost-effective private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation

Japan Weather Association cuts infrastructure costs by 50% with VMware

The Japan Weather Association (JWA) faced challenges with aging hardware as weather data volumes surged, needing to secure 1,000 virtual machines and strengthen defenses against ransomware. To modernize its infrastructure, JWA turned to VMware, deploying the VMware Cloud Foundation platform.

VMware's solution, which integrated vSAN Express Storage Architecture and vDefend Distributed Firewall, enabled JWA to build a resilient private cloud. The results included a 50% cost savings compared to public cloud, a doubling of storage IOPS for faster data delivery, and a reduction in recovery times from one week to just a few hours.