Executive Summary

Schwinghammer is an award-winning architectural lighting design firm delivering projects of all sizes worldwide. To modernize its IT environment and improve business agility, the company partnered with ITTStar for on-premises to AWS migration services. ITTStar successfully migrated the customer's infrastructure to AWS, providing a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environment that supports future business growth while reducing infrastructure management overhead.


Customer Challenge

The customer faced rising infrastructure costs, increasing hardware maintenance, and growing operational complexity within its on-premises environment. ITTStar addressed these challenges through AWS cloud infrastructure migration services, enabling a secure lift-and-shift migration strategy that reduced infrastructure costs, improved scalability, simplified IT management, and accelerated cloud adoption.


Partner Solution

ITTStar implemented AWS managed cloud migration services by designing a secure migration framework using Amazon S3 Sync, Amazon EC2, and encrypted VPN connectivity. The solution enabled seamless migration of on-premises workloads to AWS while minimizing downtime, protecting sensitive business data, and providing a scalable cloud infrastructure tailored to the customer's operational requirements.


Why AWS?

Secure AWS VPN migration solutions built with Amazon S3 Sync and AWS Managed OpenVPN enabled Schwinghammer to migrate workloads securely while maintaining uninterrupted business operations. The solution automated workload migration, established encrypted VPN connectivity, reduced migration risks, and delivered secure remote access with TLS encryption for distributed teams.


Why Schwinghammer chose ITTStar?

ITTStar conducted a workshop to walk the customer through the entire process and the perks the customer would acquire on migrating their infrastructure to AWS Cloud. The customer was lured by the business case presented by ITTStar's proactive and professional team covering many areas such as accessibility, affordability, ease of deployment, scalability, security and most importantly the cost benefits.
This is why the customer decided to

  • Take the cloud approach
  • Choose AWS as the solution
  • Decided to partner with no other than ITTStar to implement the solution, thanks to their deep knowledge and expertise with AWS.

Impact & Results

ITTStar's state-of-the-art approach led to the following benefits for Schwinghammer:

  • Adapting to AWS helped convert the existing infrastructure cost from CapEx to OpEx.
  • Reduction in administrative time and hardware maintenance issues.
  • Enabled scaling as and when required.
  • Provided operational flexibility to business operations.
  • Dedicated VPN helped mitigate security concerns for users working from home in the pandemic.
  • AWS VPN helps client with secure connections and provides a secure TLS connection from any location using the OpenVPN client.
About the Customer

Schwinghammer lighting architectural lighting design firm. Schwinghammer work on projects all around the world. Their services include lighting design, custom fixture design, lighting specification, on-site focusing, lighting fixture pricing and procurement.

Customer Testimonial

1. This team is generally responsible, polite, and professional.
2. They are quick to respond.
3. They have a variety of knowledge and have found solutions to all the issues we've encountered thus far.

Juan Jose Acosta
Principal & SCHWINGHAMMER

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