CloudSphere Helps North American National Railway Company Migrate to AWS
Anonymous · Transportation
EnterprisemigrationCloudSphere helped a North American national railway company, a Transportation industry leader, successfully migrate to AWS using its CloudSphere Knowledge Graph. The project resulted in a 57% annual cost reduction in TCO and reduced security risks by identifying outdated operating systems.
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Challenges addressed
- –Limited visibility into IT estate and applications
- –High license and support costs for VMware environment
- –Need for total cost of ownership assessment for migration to AWS
- –Complexities in cloud migration due to strict industry regulations
Key metrics
- ✓57% annual cost reduction in TCO achieved by opting for a 3-year reserved instance and right-sizing virtual machines in AWS
- ✓Identified reduction of MS SQL Enterprise core counts by 39% with an estimated license cost reduction of 40%
- ✓Discovered more than 15,571 COTS and proprietary applications for migration planning
- ✓Reduced security risks by identifying 563 operating systems that were past EOL date