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Online Real Estate Brokerage Company

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Online Real Estate Brokerage

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About The Company:

Founded in 2004, this online real estate brokerage company is located in 100+ U.S. and Canadian markets. The company blends cutting-edge technology expert agents to offer a more efficient and affordable home buying and selling experience. Beyond real estate, the company is committed to social impact, supporting underserved communities by empowering employees to uplift the causes they care about. Since 2020, employees have contributed over $1.6 million to local nonprofits who are dedicated to helping make a difference.

The Challenge

As the customer prepared to accelerate their migration to AWS, they were racing against a hard deadline to vacate a co- location data center. The challenge wasn’t just physical--it was financial and security- driven. The company still had on-premises hardware under OEM support contracts, creating a “double bubble” of cloud and legacy spend. To make matters more urgent, their infrastructure contained sensitive data that had to be handled with precision to meet internal and regulatory compliance standards.

The Solution

The company turned to ReluTech, a trusted AWS partner known for simplifying data center exits through secure IT asset disposition (ITAD) and hardware buyback services.

ReluTech’s certified team handled everything:

  • Uninstalled the customer’s infrastructure

  • Performed secure, R2v3-certified data erasure

  • Coordinated a compliant and sustainable asset disposition process

  • Provided over $200,000 in upfront capital for the customer’s used hardware

This influx of cash helped offset the cost of the company’s cloud migration, allowing the company to allocate more budget toward modernization initiatives and reduce unnecessary legacy spend.

The Result

Thanks to ReluTech’s fast, secure, and compliant ITAD process, the customer:

  • Exited their co-location data center on time

  • Avoided data exposure risks

  • Freed themselves from OEM support constraints

  • Accelerated their AWS migration with over $200,000 in new funding