NHS Azure Assessment

SECTOR
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Healthcare

CHALLENGE
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With 835 physical and virtual; servers in data centres across 6 locations, this customer required an Azure migration feasibility report and recommendation for each of the 6 sites.

SOLUTION
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Used SurPaas from partner Corent to conduct a cloud assessment on each location.

BENEFITS
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> Cost saving opportunities identified.
> End-Of-Life and containerisation advice dispensed.
> Detailed cloud feasibility reports for each location.
> Comprehensive impact analysis using dependency mapping.

Sol-Tec uses Corent SurPaas to assess Microsoft Azure Migration opportunities for an NHS customer

The Project

Sol-Tec’s NHS customer is a part of the UK’s biggest health content sharing portal. It wanted to assess its data centres across the country for opportunities to migrate to Microsoft Azure.

Sol-Tec used SurPaaS®, a Corent Technology partner product, to conduct a cloud assessment. The results were compiled into a report, which outlined the cloud migration feasibilities of each data centre and its servers in detail.

The Challenges

Customer wanted to analyse each of its 6 locations separately for migration planning.
Had to understand the infrastructure landscape and dependencies between resources for effective migration planning.
Needed a migration strategy for 100+ End-of-Life (EOL) Windows servers to Microsoft Azure.
Required a cost analysis, including cost saving opportunities, that a move to cloud would deliver in the long-term.

The Solution

Individual cloud feasibility reports were generated for the 6 different customer locations.
SurPaaS® identified the move groups available in the infrastructure based on the dependency mapping and helped define an optimal cloud migration strategy.
Microsoft Azure’s capability to migrate EOL servers with extended support for Windows, was recommended.
Cost analysis was performed with 3-year reserved instances available on Microsoft Azure, for effective budgeting.
Recommendation to consolidate the workload components during Microsoft Azure migration to optimise cost savings.

The Result

Migration strategy for each customer location was defined individually using SurPaaS®, with the business needs of the customer taken into account.

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