Case Studies
UK Media
- Industry: Media
- Size: Enterprise
Key Metrics
- Ten different files, including text, CSV, and Excel.
- 40 Days to Complete
- No Discovery Agents
- Multiple Business Case Scenarios
- Migration Readiness Assessment & Operational Model Design
- 530 Servers
- 90 Applications
- 374 Database Instances
Objectives
- Avoid capital expenditure to replace the ageing server and storage infrastructure.
- Avoid costs for over-provisioning infrastructure by rightsizing the infrastructure footprint on AWS and scaling as required.
- Development of a replacement strategy for the ageing compute and storage platforms.
- Eliminate responsibility for the data centre fabric.
- Building a services platform that enables the business to transform faster and increase adoption of a cloud-first approach to the delivery of IT services.
- The Cloud adoption programme is a key component of future-proofing the business.
Approach
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development.
- Rapid mapping of workloads to one of the six R transformation methods.
- Migration Readiness Assessment covers the following areas: Governance, People, Operations, Security and Platform.
- Fast identification of quick wins enables the first wave of migrations to happen faster providing valuable learnings to help shape the remaining migration waves.
- Development of short-, medium- and long-term roadmap.
Results
- Rapid discovery and assessment and cloud strategy development enabling first migrations in under 45 days.
- Development of business case, migration strategy and move groups.
- Adoption of improved security access model.
- Identification and execution of mode-2 proof of concepts in parallel to mode-1 re-hosts.
- Development of a 30-day task list to get ready for cloud adoption.
- Creation of VPC architecture and landing zone blueprint.
- Cloud adoption flight plan with resource model.
