Client story Azure Cloud Migration Enables Shift to Digital Headquarters
When a well-known bakery and café chain needed to migrate their on-premises data centers to the cloud as part of their shift away from physical headquarters, they turned to Insight for end-to-end support.
By Insight Editor / 29 Apr 2021 / Topics: Data center Microsoft Azure
Facts at a glance
Client industry
Food services
Size of company
250 location across the United States, India and Thailand
Challenge
The client wanted to eliminate its brick-and-mortar headquarters and transition all headquarter employees to 100% remote work — requiring its on-premises data center to be transitioned to the cloud.
Solution
- A Cloud Economics Assessment determined Microsoft® Azure® was the right option.
- A Cloud Economics Engagement determined sizing and configuration.
- Professional services supported the client’s migration to Azure.
- A custom Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) jumpstart was performed to set up the landing zone and migrate production workloads.
Results
- Flexible data storage in Azure
- All workloads fully migrated
- CSP provides client with flexible billing based on usage
Solution area
Insight’s Digital Innovation solutions help clients incorporate emerging tech into their business operations to improve the end user experience.
When a well-known café and catering chain decided the time was right to move from a physical headquarters model to 100% remote work, it drew upon its long-standing relationship with Insight to get the job done.
The client recognized that eliminating its physical headquarters and removing the need for tape-based data backup would require a cloud solution in place of its existing on-premises datacenter. But it needed help determining which cloud solution best met its needs, as well as assistance with sizing and support to migrate the actual workloads to the cloud. The client knew that Insight offered the expertise and experience to advise and support every step of the migration process.
After discussing the business objectives and the benefits of leveraging Microsoft Azure, the client decided to complete a Cloud Economics Assessment for a better understanding of which workloads could be moved as part of its migration strategy.
The client wanted to migrate its data center from an on-premises location to the cloud, freeing the company to shift to a total remote work environment for employees based at its headquarters.
A smooth transition to the cloud
Once the Cloud Economics Assessment was complete, Insight performed a custom IaaS jumpstart to set up the landing zone and migrate several production workloads to Azure. Our team also walked the client through the rightsizing process to determine the size and configuration needs for its new Azure-hosted data center. By purchasing Azure through Insight’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, the client gained the flexibility to only pay for what it uses each month. Furthermore, the scalability and support offered by InsightCloud Care for Azure offers both ongoing technical assistance and billing flexibility to save the client money in the long run.
The client engaged Insight’s Professional Services to support the actual migration of its workloads to the cloud. Today, the client enjoys more flexibility, better redundancy and resiliency, and better operations and automation for net-new workloads that have migrated to Azure.
