The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) currently operates a single primary data center located in North Carolina, which supports 138 virtual machines (VMs) across production, infrastructure, testing, and development environments. These workloads run on a combination of Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms, collectively utilizing approximately sixty (60) terabytes of provisioned storage. The district maintains a hybrid Information Technology (IT) ecosystem that integrates multiple enterprise platforms, including Microsoft services, Google Workspace, a district-wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and a Student Information System (SIS). Together, these systems form the backbone of daily academic, administrative, and operational functions across schools and central offices. To address the growing demand for agility, resilience, and cost optimization, this initiative seeks to modernize the district’s technology infrastructure by evaluating the migration of all VMware-based workloads, along with associated backup and recovery systems, to a cloud platform. The project will explore the adoption of cloudnative services to: ● Enhance scalability to meet fluctuating instructional and administrative needs. ● Improve resilience and disaster recovery capabilities. ● Streamline IT operations and reduce maintenance overhead. ● Achieve cost efficiencies through optimized resource utilization and pay-as-you-go models. Ultimately, this modernization effort positions the district to support innovation in teaching, learning, and operations, while ensuring a secure, future-ready technology foundation. Vendor will include the following in their proposal: ● Integration with WCPSS IDP Cloud landing zone setup and/or validation. ● Full environment assessment and dependency mapping. ● Connectivity configuration (VPN, Direct Connect equivalents). ● Migration tooling setup (e.g., HCX, Cloud MGN, Cloud Endure, etc.). ● Pilot migration of non-critical workloads. ● Production migration in structured waves. ● Testing, validation, and application owner sign-off. ● Knowledge transfer and operational documentation including reference architecture diagram. ● Post-migration hyper care support (30–60 days). ● Continuous managed services post-stabilization (as required). ● Vendor will provide cost comparison of vendor provided licensing, and district provided licensing within their proposal. ● Setup/backup per local, state, and federal schedule and retention requirements. ● Disaster Recovery (DR) set up within the cloud environment.
