Continent 8 is able to use its experience with VMware, Nutanix, private and public clouds to provide professional as well as managed services to customers, enabling them to focus on core revenue-generating operations. Being able to demonstrate such a significant saving and ROI will be of interest to many enterprises in today’s market. It’s thanks to the experienced and highly qualified project and cloud engineering staff at Continent 8 that we were able to successfully complete this project, while earning Sportingtech’s trust to manage their critical operational infrastructure.
Michael Jack Chief Technology Officer at Sportingtech
Modernise your infrastructure in line with demand, adapting quickly to changing workloads without hardware constraints.
Reduce capital investment and move to a pay-as-you-use model for more predictable, efficient IT spend.
Benefit from advanced security controls and built-in compliance capabilities across cloud environments.
Access high-availability infrastructure with built-in redundancy and disaster recovery.
Free your teams from infrastructure management and accelerate innovation and deployment.
Structured, phased approach to reduce risk.
Workloads remain operational during migration with only a short cutover window.
From planning and testing through to optimisation.
Governance-aligned processes and strict data handling.
Close collaboration with your teams at every stage.
We begin with a detailed assessment of your environment, identifying workloads, dependencies, and key requirements across network, security, and compliance. A structured planning workshop ensures all stakeholders are aligned on scope, timelines, and success criteria before migration begins.
We prepare the target cloud environment and initiate replication, configuring infrastructure, aligning virtual machine sizing, and mapping networks to ensure a seamless transition. This stage establishes the foundation for a consistent and reliable migration.
Workloads are synchronised continuously between source and target environments through initial full replication followed by incremental updates. This ensures systems remain up to date without disrupting live applications during the migration process.
At an agreed time, we execute the final migration, completing synchronisation and transitioning workloads into the target environment. Network and system configurations are applied, with downtime limited to a short, controlled cutover window.
Following deployment, we validate all applications, services, and connectivity to ensure everything is operating as expected. A structured stabilisation period allows for monitoring, optimisation, and rollback if required, before final customer sign-off.
Sportingtech, a leading provider of betting and gaming solutions, faced a potential 42% rise in virtualisation costs following VMware licensing changes. Partnering with Continent 8, they successfully migrated to Nutanix, achieving a more cost-efficient, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure.
A global iGaming technology provider needed to modernise its legacy VMware-based infrastructure while maintaining 24/7 availability and scalability. Partnering with Continent 8, they successfully migrated to a cost-effective Nutanix HCI platform, ensuring a future-ready, high-performance environment.
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