TRIAL Company's existing IT environment was complex, with a mix of packaged software, systems co-developed with IT vendors, and in-house applications. That variety made it difficult to maintain and update. One of the biggest reasons for migrating was that the company's on-premises virtual infrastructure – running entirely out of a single data center – was nearing end-of-support. They needed a more stable, scalable, and high-performance platform to keep up with business growth.

Some of the legacy systems posed significant migration barriers, including older, in-house platforms that were increasingly difficult to support, limited visibility into system functions, a lack of design documentation, and hardcoded IP addresses. Internal estimates suggested that readdressing those systems for migration could require a full day of downtime. To avoid that risk and effort, the development team flagged one critical requirement: migrate to the cloud without changing existing IP addresses.

TRIAL Company had already adopted cloud-native practices for newer systems and was eager to extend those benefits across the organization. Because of their existing Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) agreement with Google Cloud and the introduction of Hybrid Subnets, Google Cloud became the natural fit. A successful proof of concept demonstrated that Google Cloud could support the migration with minimal downtime and without the disruption of readdressing systems, something other options couldn't guarantee.