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A global law firm cut server-support costs by 80%
Years of organic growth had filled this firm's data centres with servers and applications nobody wanted to switch off, because nobody knew what would break. An intelligent audit answered that question, and the migration that followed cut ongoing support costs by 80%.
The challenge
Paying to keep the lights on for servers nobody used
The firm's server estate had grown application by application, matter by matter, for years. Ageing hardware, layered dependencies and undocumented workloads made every decommissioning conversation end the same way: “safer to leave it running.” The support bill grew accordingly.
A planned move to a new data centre and cloud made the question unavoidable: move everything at great cost, or finally establish what could be retired.
The problem
Of unaudited server and application growth
The approach
An intelligent audit before a single workload moved
We ran a server-application audit through our 'As-Is' analysis discipline: mapping every workload, its dependencies and its actual usage, then rationalising the estate before designing the migration.
- Full server-application audit with dependency mapping
- Usage evidence gathered: retirement decisions made on facts, not fear
- Rationalised estate migrated to a new data centre and cloud
- Legacy hardware decommissioned, support contracts released
The result
The same firm, 80% lighter to run
With the estate rationalised and migrated, the firm's ongoing server-support costs fell by 80%: a permanent reduction, not a one-off saving. Its infrastructure now matches what the business actually uses.
Support costs
Reduction in ongoing server-support costs
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Is your server estate costing more than it should?
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