It’s one thing to plan, it’s another to realize the future has arrived and your infrastructure isn’t ready for it.
That's exactly where a leading customs brokerage found themselves: aging data centres, mounting technical debt, and a cloud strategy that looked good on paper but crumbled under real-world scrutiny. Facing rising costs, operational risks, and the weight of regulatory compliance, they needed more than a migration plan — they needed a true rethink.
That’s when they turned to Compugen to help them see a smarter, more sustainable path forward.
The Challenge
A leading customs brokerage faced a critical decision point: two aging data centres approaching end-of-life, a complex and costly cloud migration plan stalling, and rising concerns about long-term supportability.
Originally pursuing a move to VMware on Azure (AVS), they quickly discovered that their flat network architecture would require a major — and disruptive — overhaul just to begin migration. Running test and development workloads in the cloud surfaced additional challenges: unexpected costs, unpredictable performance, and growing doubts about cloud fit for their business-critical operations.
With infrastructure nearing its limits and cost predictability slipping away, they needed a partner to help re-evaluate their strategy and a solution built for stability, scalability, and control.
The Opportunity
With technology reaching a tipping point and operational risks mounting, this was a moment to think differently and go beyond replacing old infrastructure to choose the right foundation for future growth, resilience, and fiscal responsibility.
Bringing Compugen into the conversation allowed the organization to step back, reconsider cloud-first assumptions, and explore a more tailored path forward — one that aligned with their performance needs, regulatory realities, and long-term business priorities.
The Solution
Compugen led a thorough cost and workload analysis, comparing multiple infrastructure scenarios against the organization's business requirements. Through collaborative workshops and sizing exercises, Compugen designed a solution that would deliver five years of predictable performance and cost certainty.
The organization moved away from the complex, expensive AVS path and instead adopted a dual-data-centre strategy built on standardized, scalable infrastructure. By modernizing their environment through co-location facilities — rather than retrofitting aging server rooms — they avoided costly power and cooling upgrades while significantly reducing risk.
The new design included scalable VMware environments, flexible storage options, hardened backup solutions with ransomware protection, and modern disaster recovery capabilities that could simulate or execute site failovers between geographically separated locations.
The focus remained on what mattered most: resilience, regulatory compliance, supportability, and business continuity.
The Outcome
Today, the customs brokerage operates with confidence. Their modernized infrastructure offers:
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Predictable five-year cost structures
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Geo-redundant disaster recovery and true business continuity
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Scalable compute and storage capacity to grow with the business
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Reduced operational risk, thanks to moving facilities management to trusted co-location providers
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Stronger ransomware defense and backup resilience
The organization successfully moved away from unsupported legacy systems and single points of failure, positioning themselves for both steady-state operations and future evolution.
The Future
With a scalable, supportable foundation in place, the brokerage is now exploring new possibilities for managed services, device management, and continued optimization. Their infrastructure transformation isn’t the end of the story; it’s the beginning of a smarter, more adaptable technology journey.
The Relationship
This engagement built on an already trusted relationship with Compugen, reinforcing the value of having a Technology Ally who understands not just technology, but business realities.
Through true collaboration — from workshops to solution design to migration support — Compugen helped the organization realize new possibilities while managing risk, cost, and complexity.
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