# Moving a Large Residential Builder from Legacy to Cloud Modernization

This large residential builder was ready to move beyond a heavily on-premises IT model while facing an upcoming VMware renewal and colocation transition.

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## Moving a Large Residential Builder from Legacy to Cloud Modernization

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This large residential builder was ready to move beyond a heavily on-premises IT model while facing an upcoming VMware renewal and colocation transition. The company needed a new production environment paired with disaster recovery (DR) and enough bandwidth for reliable failover. Expedient Private Cloud provided a flexible production environment with integrated Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), colocation, data protection, and managed operations. The result was gaining greater control and resilience, reducing on-premises reliance, and supporting the builder’s broader modernization plans.

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### Industry

 Construction 

## Challenges

Required exiting the existing colocation provider on a short timeline

Production and DR called for private cloud with enough bandwidth for reliable failover

The VMware renewal costs made another refresh of the on-premises environment difficult to justify

Multiple IT projects made it critical to keep the broader modernization agenda moving forward

## Outcomes

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Modernized infrastructure with private cloud, reducing legacy reliance

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Reduced VMware and colocation dependencies for greater flexibility

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Strengthened resilience with integrated production and disaster recovery

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