Make-a-Wish Moves to the Cloud to Grant Wishes Faster
Children 's charity The Make-A-Wish Foundation depends on its website and its distributed IT systems to carry out its mission of granting wishes to seriously ill children.
Recently, the Make-A-Wish Foundation needed to streamline its IT systems and improve the reliability of its website. The foundation's IT team used VMware's Cloud Provider Platform to create an enterprise-wide project to standardize the infrastructure for all its U.S. chapters and enable cloud services at its headquarters.
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What challenges did Make-A-Wish face before moving to the cloud?
Make-A-Wish faced several challenges, including the need to improve reliability, throughput, and responsiveness of their IT systems. They also aimed to streamline disparate IT systems into a centralized cloud infrastructure and increase employee productivity to accelerate the process of granting wishes.
How did the cloud solution benefit Make-A-Wish?
After moving to the cloud, Make-A-Wish was able to safeguard sensitive data, standardize secure access across all chapters, and streamline management and operations. The cloud solution provided greater flexibility in choosing cloud services and helped reduce costs through a multi-cloud environment.
What technology did Make-A-Wish use for their cloud infrastructure?
Make-A-Wish utilized VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, and VMware NSX Data Center to create a standardized IT infrastructure for all U.S. chapters and enable cloud services for their headquarters, allowing for real-time data access across the organization.
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