Manufacturing: Exiting the Data Centre Without Slowing the Plants

An industrial manufacturer had a data centre lease that would not be renewed and VMware hosts at end of support — with no in-house hypervisor specialists and plant floors that could not stop for an IT migration. UPC connected every plant via private UnitedConnect® links to keep ERP latency intact, moved file and web services first to free space in the old data centre, then migrated ERP tiers during planned maintenance windows with rollback in place. The old data centre was decommissioned on schedule, and DRaaS now protects ERP and plant systems.