Case Study: Cloud Migration
SUMMARY
A large U.S. retailer wanted to move from a 10 year old on-prem server solution to the cloud to reduce costs associated with their data center footprint. Partnering with Spearhead allowed them to reduce costs and adapt a CI/CD deployment pipeline to modernize how they go to market.
Challenges
- Front of the House Systems updates brought periodic outages causing customer complaints and revenue losses
- State Requirements around data privacy and data retention limited the flexibility to update historical data repositories due to aging application servers in data center
Solutions Offered
- Created an advanced SDN network topology to mitigate outages and minimize downtime, increasing up time up to 99.7%
- Setup an IaaS cloud environment, mimicked the operational application specs, migrated historical data to a cloud instance certified to hold sensitive historical data
- Created an end of the year transition roadmap from premise to cloud for migration of 20 legacy servers hosting historical data.
- VPC with legacy OS in secure environments set up to ensure access stayed available to corporate auditors
RESULTS
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Client increased Front of House applications availability to above 90%, resulting in a 65% decrease in customer complaints
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Transitioning from on-prem to cloud reduced costs by 90%