A deemed university with 40,000+ students migrated one major exam cycle from Google Cloud to a single dedicated RootServe node. Cost for that cycle dropped 75% — from ₹28 Lakh to ₹7 Lakh. Three lakh exams ran without incident.
A deemed-to-be university headquartered in Bangalore with a national footprint. Programs span engineering, management, sciences, law. Examinations run multiple times a year, with peak concurrency during semesters and entrance windows. Compliance with UGC and NAD guidelines is non-negotiable.
JGI ran a major exam cycle on Google Cloud. That single cycle cost ₹28 Lakh, with unpredictable spikes during peak windows. Beyond cost: the architecture relied on multi-tenant infrastructure governed by US law, raising hard questions during UGC compliance reviews. Latency during high-concurrency exams was unpredictable. Support tickets queued.
We provisioned a single dedicated RootServe node, sized for the documented peak load of 10,000 concurrent exam-takers. Pinned CPUs, dedicated RAM, no virtualisation overhead, full root access for the JGI team. Application stack pre-configured. DR replication to a second city. Migration ran over a weekend. Parallel-run for one week. Cutover invisible to students.
Three hundred thousand exams ran on the new infrastructure without a reported incident. Cost reduction was 75% on that exam cycle alone. Annual infrastructure spend is now fixed and predictable. Compliance posture improved categorically — data, hardware, contract, and jurisdiction all moved to Indian soil. Full case study publishable with client permission.
"We expected a cost cut. We didn't expect to spend an exam day not watching the dashboard for the first time in years."
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