Automation Case Study

Fortune 500 transportation leader safely migrates from one cloud to another

J.B. Hunt, a transportation leader, used IBM Turbonomic to migrate from one cloud to another. In 2018, they started their cloud journey by moving 25% of their workloads to Microsoft Azure. In 2019, they decided to re-architect their J.B. Hunt 360 platform. To handle the increasing complexity, they implemented IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management (ARM).

Turbonomic's AI-powered recommendations and automated actions helped J.B. Hunt. Over 12 months, nearly 2,000 resizing actions were executed, saving over 650 hours of the team's time. Turbonomic aided in planning their on-premises environment and provided evidence for purchasing new hosts. It also helped ensure an audit trail for changes.

In 2021, J.B. Hunt partnered with Google Cloud and migrated their compute environment (1,000 virtual machines, 90 Kubernetes clusters, and more) from Azure to Google Cloud. They reduced a six to nine month project plan to six weeks of execution. Because they trusted Turbonomic, they were confident in their workload sizing. The migration was completed in 35 business days with no downtime.

The team will continue to optimize their environment to reduce waste and ensure application performance. Turbonomic's Google Cloud integration will help prevent resourcing issues.