Case Studies
Customer Industry: FSI
Size: Enterprise
Location: UK
Key Metrics
- 15 Days to Complete
- No Discovery Agents
- Modelled against 5 Transformation Scenarios
- 4657 Servers
- 19 OS types
Objectives
- Develop the skills of our people and enable them with modern engineering practices to provide a better work experience.
- Accelerate our relentless customer focus by transforming business services with modern cloud capabilities, delivering new products faster and with greater automation efficiencies.
- Progress our ESG targets and reduce our carbon emissions with aspirations of becoming the first net-zero FSI.
- Exit all self-managed data centres within a fixed period and ensure sustainability in the local area.
- Reduce our Total Cost of Ownership.
- Improve security controls across cloud environments.
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 R transformation methods.
- Migration Readiness Assessment considered three scenarios covering Modernisation, timescale, people, governance and removal of technical debt.
- Fast identification of 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, assessment and cloud strategy development achieving business approval and funding secured in 5 months.
- Migration AS-IS and TO-BE architectural model, including technology, treatments and landing zone identification.
- Migration risk analysis and mitigation report. Highlighting the investment needed to be made in RLG people, including business-wide basic cloud skills for every role.
- TCO cost breakdown between on-premises and a three and five-year lift-and-shift to the cloud.
- Identify the migration workloads to be factored into the flight plan and enable cloud-native services.
- From the Junkshon output, the financial modelling could predict when an expected ROI would occur.
Case Study
Insurance Services
- Size: Enterprise
- Location: UK
Key Metrics
- 9 files uploaded and processed.
- No discovery agents used.
- 3 business case scenarios.
- Estate consisted of:
- 920 servers
- 710 VM’s to migrate
- 68 DB servers
- 19 retained servers
- 123 to be retired.
- 420TB storage
Objectives
- Establish scalable technology foundations to support the acquisition growth strategy.
- Decrease carbon footprint & Environmental Impact.
- Reduce data centre footprint.
- Decrease technology spending.
Approach
- The Customer’s cloud readiness and maturity were in a reasonable state.
- The Customer already has a decent-sized estate in Microsoft Azure.
- There was a relatively small amount of technical debt to analyse.
- Azure cloud services were selected to accommodate the acquisition strategy & enable the migration of assets from any new acquisitions.
- The existing on-premise estate was targeted for a migration to Azure.
- A very small proportion of the estate was targeted to be retained and investigated, primarily the mainframe and itanium based applications.
- The 3 business case scenarios presented were.
- On-premise migration with future migration zone over 1 year (Junkshon recommendation).
- On-premise migration with future migration over 2 years (Customer preferred timescale).
- On-premise migration without future migration zone over 1 year.
Results
- Junkshon provided the completed cloud strategy and business case report to Microsoft & the customer.
- This provided additional insight to Microsoft around Customer’s group business goals.
- Microsoft can now tailor their services to the Customer more effectively.
Case Study
Financial Services Customer
- Industry: FSI
- Size: Enterprise
- Location: South Africa
Key Metrics
- 10 different different files including text, csv, excel.
- 6 Weeks duration, remotely managed.
- No Discovery Agents
- Multiple Business Case Scenarios
Objectives
- Adoption of a flexible infrastructure platform to enable them to develop and launch new products into the insurance market.
- Reduce technical debt of current infrastructure and adopt infrastructure as code principles for managing and scaling application services.
- Identification of potential mainframe migration options ensuring that business critical programs are not impacted.
- A safe rate of change approach.
- Migration away from high cost Oracle Platforms
Approach
- Rapid discovery of I.T landscape from multiple sources including static CSV files and ITSM data.
- Migration strategy and technical debt analysis identifying initial migration move groups
- The creation of a full business case with on-premise and Oracle refresh comparison
- Identification of proof of concepts for mainframe modernisation.
- Development of migration programme plan providing mode 1 and mode 2 migration approaches.
Results
- Junkshon saved hours of spreadsheet data collection and assembly of configuration data from different data sources.
- The customer uploaded data across two weeks with minimal effort from the existing operational staff.
- Analysis performed remotely, enabling data-driven workshops onsite with the customer in South Africa
- Development of migration strategy and roadmap using customer data for mainframe and midrange migrations
- Development of on-premise and AWS cloud business cases
- Rapid identification of Oracle replacement quick wins using AWS RDS and compute services using scenarios and licensing information uploaded into the junkshon platform
