SituationA top-10 global beverage company faced infrastructure risk in Japan due to legacy systems with single points of failure, threatening tens of millions in revenue. The goal was to de-risk operations and enable safe software deployment.
TaskRemove risk with minimal disruption. Ensure minute-level recovery, modernize hardware, and stay within cost and effort constraints.
ActionAudited systems and implemented backups. Built a virtualized environment for testing and rapid provisioning. Streamlined installs, added monitoring, and deployed a user-friendly hypervisor and backup suite to support recovery and staging.
ResultReliability improved to 99.7%. Builds dropped to 1.5 hours, restores to 5 minutes. Processing sped up 3×. Local teams gained performance and readiness for future cloud migration.
ReturnProtected $4M/year in revenue. Saved 900+ hours annually. Improved client experience and enabled staff to focus on business growth.
YieldEnabled strategic flexibility and long-term planning. Virtualization + modernization formed a repeatable model for secure, scalable transformation.
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