CASE STUDY
With one million users requiring access to an ever-expanding library of more than 24,000 e-learning sessions, our client required a highly available, scalable platform to ensure it could meet both its existing and growing demands without issue.
Following a merger, our client needed to rationalise the IT departments of the two businesses. As part of this process, they decided to replace one AWS environment and move into the other’s Azure subscription and benefit from the cost savings offered through the existing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA).
Services
Azure
Managed Services
Professional Services
Cloud Migration
Licensing
Industry
Public Sector
Organisation size
More than one million users
Completion Date
March 2019
This change came at a time when the organisation was already feeling it had outgrown the support model with its existing hosting provider and was looking to gain more autonomy in managing its cloud applications and infrastructure.
With its cloud partner falling short of meeting its business needs and the organisational drive to adopt an Azure-only environment, the organisation prepared a rigorous tender process to seek a better fit solution and partner.
A key priority for the migration was to keep system downtime to an absolute minimum, given users could require access to its e-learning resources at any point in the week, day or night.
However, some components would need to be stopped during the migration process and transferring its mission critical database, along with sizeable assets, learning records and documents, would take a long time. All this meant that some downtime would be inevitable. To minimise downtime, the client’s entire Windows and Linux server estate would need to be moved across to the new Azure environment over the course of just one weekend.
The long-term ambition for the client is to move to a PaaS architecture, which will enable it to take advantage of containerisation and improve the e-learning experience for users via AI.
With its Azure solution in place and running smoothly, our client has already engaged with us to provide consultancy and delivery on the next phase of the project to move its applications over to a PaaS architecture enabling them to reap the benefits of services such as Azure DevOps, Azure Web Apps and Azure SQL to:
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Take a look at some of the results that stood out for Tysers.
months to deliver a new Azure environment
cost reductions through Azure
monitoring and alerting
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