Case Studies
Media Customer
- Industry: Media
- Size: Enterprise
- Location: Global
Key Metrics
- 30 different files including text, CSV, Excel and ServiceNow and vSphere extracts.
- 90 Days to Complete
- No Discovery Agents
- Multiple Business Case Scenarios
- Migration Readiness Assessment Action Plan
- 38,928 Servers
- 1550 Applications
Objectives
- Optimise cost of infrastructure service provision.
- Improve Infrastructure Availability and Business Continuity.
- Consolidation options for technology products, including OS, Database and integration software.
- Exit and close old data centre facilities.
- Create a foundation for transformation projects, including adopting cloud-native technologies.
Identify quick-win projects.
Establish a baseline of cloud readiness across the different business units.
Approach
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development.
- Migration strategy and roadmap underpinned by applications and infrastructure data.
- Rapid mapping of workloads to one of the 6R transformation methods.
- Migration Readiness Assessment for 7 different business units covering the following areas, Governance, People, Operations, Security and Platform.
- Quickly identifying quick wins enables the first wave of migrations to happen faster, providing valuable learnings to help shape the remaining migration waves.
- Creation of an entire business case including operations, infrastructure and facilities costs compared to future cloud costs.
Results
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development enabling first migrations in under 90 days.
- Development of business case and migration strategy across four scenarios, including mass migration, VMWARE on AWS, modernisation and cloud-native application services adoption.
- Multi-year modernisation plan and associated cost model broken down into individual modernisation treatments (6Rs).
- Identification of Fast Track cloud migration opportunities to move application services to hosted PaaS platform.
- An initial PoC was carried out on AWS to demonstrate capability.
- Migration Readiness Assessment maturity model, action plans for implementing cloud centre of excellence, including target operating model.
Case Study
Global Media Company
- Industry: Media
- Size: Enterprise
- Location: UK
Key Metrics
- 13 different files, including text, csv, excel.
- 40 Days to Complete
- No Discovery Agents
- Multiple Business Case Scenarios
- Migration Readiness Assessment & Operational Model Design
- 1789 Servers
- 280 Applications
- 303 Database Instances
Objectives
- Exit the data centre by December 2021 to avoid the cost of a three-year data centre extension.
- Avoid capital expenditure to replace ageing server and storage infrastructure.
- Avoid increasing maintenance costs for ageing hardware and software.
- Avoid costs for over provisioning infrastructure by rightsizing the infrastructure footprint on AWS and scaling as required.
- Modernisation of the underlying technical infrastructure supporting the workloads.
- Upgrades to the versions of the COTS products used will bring additional business value from enhanced features and functionality.
Approach
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development.
- Migration strategy and roadmap underpinned by applications and infrastructure data.
- Rapid mapping of workloads to one of the six R transformation methods.
- Fast identification of quick wins enabling the first wave of migrations to happen faster providing valuable learnings to help shape the remaining migration waves.
- Risk model development across Business case, Security, Operating Model and Migration.
Results
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development enabling first migrations in under 45 days.
- Application Compatibility Analysis for commercial off the shelf products for the AWS target cloud.
- Creation of move groups based upon application and infrastructure data.
- Development of business case, migration strategy and move groups.
- Cloud adoption flight plan with resource model.