This case study describes how Foundation Title, a title insurance and settlement services agency supporting 125 employees, worked with Rackspace and WSM to complete an urgent migration after its prior hosting provider announced a shutdown. The project required moving 19 Windows Server 2019 systems from VMware to managed VMware at Rackspace under a compressed timeline, with only a few weeks available for execution after the initial plan had to be reworked. Because access limitations prevented an image-based lift-and-shift, WSM pivoted to a highly manual migration approach involving large file transfers via shipped storage, manual moves of websites and databases, third-party software installs, and SQL reporting setup, coordinated across multiple vendors. Despite the obstacles, the team compl

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