Problem Statement:
Customer is one of the largest K12 education board of India and was operating outdated on-premises hardware. Customer was facing challenges in maintaining on-prem data center with challenges of DR, data backup requirements due to legal and compliance obligations.
Challenges faced by customer:
- Outdated hardware used to run application
- Higher cost of hardware upgrade
- No option to minimize IT infra spend
- Higher downtime in case of hardware failure
- On-prem DC was a blocker for modernizing the application
Solution Overview:
Migration Requirements which were considered:
- Enterprise level landing zone
- Centralized identity and access management
- Centralized network security for layer 4 and layer 7 network
- Governance and Compliance to be in-place for Azure resources
- Cost optimization wherever possible
- Simple lift and shift strategy to Azure
- Use automation to minimize admin overhead
Benefits delivered post migration:
- Reduced cost
- Auto Scalable Infra
- Achieved 99.99% availability
- Active DR with very low RTO and RPO
- Highly Secured & Compliant
- Advanced Analytics and Insights
- Reduced Time to Market