Mountain View School District Saves Big With Google Cloud Migration and CDW

Learn how a school district cut costs and optimized IT by migrating from on-prem servers to Google Cloud.

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Based in Ontario, California, Mountain View School District (MVSD) is committed to nurturing the whole child. Their mission focuses on ensuring that each student is safe, supported and provided with a high-quality education, empowering them to reach their full potential.

Cost-Saving Challenges Lead MVSD to Explore Google Cloud

Seeking to reduce costs associated with their current infrastructure, MVSD approached CDW for a tailored solution to optimize their setup and explore the potential benefits of migrating to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). At the time, MVSD was using an on-premises server virtualization solution and Google Workspace. The district also had a small GCP footprint from past projects.

"This has been the most painless migration I have ever been through. And considering how important this is to us; I am quite pleased with the support we are getting."

— Melanie Valdes, Director of Technology, Mountain View School District

CDW's Customized Google Cloud Migration for MVSD

CDW created a solution specific to MVSD’s requirements. Knowing that cost reduction was a priority, our team worked with the district to perform a cost analysis of:

Running their servers in Google Cloud
Performing the migration based on the district’s requirements and CDW best practices
Providing managed service for the day-to-day operations of securing, monitoring and optimizing their GCP environment

Seamless Cloud Migration With Cost Efficiency

CDW built a secure Google Cloud environment to host MVSD's servers, performed migration and provided all day-2 operations support for their new environment.

The migration not only reduced the monthly cost of running the district’s existing environment, but also allowed their IT staff to focus on other projects for the school district, knowing that CDW is taking care of the day-to-day support.