A non-profit left its server room for good
A 60-person community non-profit retired its aging server room and moved to cloud services in a month, cutting a third from its annual technology spend.
Before
Three aging servers in a converted closet ran email, files and the donor database. Cooling failures took the whole organisation offline twice in one summer, and the annual maintenance contract cost more than the hardware was worth.
What we did
We moved email and files to Microsoft 365 under charity licensing, rehosted the donor database with its vendor, and turned the server closet back into storage. Staff kept the same folder structure they already knew.
Results
A thirty-one percent reduction in annual technology cost, no on-premise servers left to fail, and the first complete disaster-recovery test the organisation had ever passed.
Our board asked what we would do if the building flooded. For the first time in twenty years the answer was: nothing, we would work from home.
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