SECTOR
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Blue Lights

CHALLENGE
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With 733 physical and virtual servers in data centres across 3 secured locations, this customer sought a cloud assessment and migration strategy. Analysis of both pre-existing and new data was required plus it was necessary to identify the operating systems running on the servers.

SOLUTION
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SurPaas, from partner Corent Technology was used to conduct a cloud assessment on each location.

BENEFITS
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End-of-Life advisories.
Flavor recommendations and customisations.
Customer’s exsiting data analysed using built-in third-party tool.
Indepth understanding of the infrastructure landscape.

Sol-Tec uses Corent SurPaas to Assess Microsoft Azure Migration Opportunities for a Police Service


The Project

A UK Police Service approached Sol-Tec to conduct a cloud assessment on both its physical and virtual server estate, with a view to migrating these 733 servers housed in data centres across 3 secured locations in the UK, to Microsoft Azure.

Sol-Tec used SurPaaS®, a Corent Technology partner product, to run a cloud assessment of the customer data centre. It analysed the data collected from scanning the servers alongside server data the customer already had available. Sol-Tec also compiled a cloud feasibility report to aid the customer in defining its cloud migration strategy for its data centres.

The Challenges

  • Servers running on customer’s data centre had End-of-Life Windows servers (2008, 2008 R2).

  • Data for some of the servers was already available from a third-party tool for analysis.

  • Customer did not have sufficient information about its servers e.g operating systems in use.

  • Wanted to select a cloud flavor for its servers that best met its business needs.

The Solution

  • For 2008/2008 R2 servers: Migration to Microsoft Azure with extended OS support was recommended.

  • SurPaaS®, with its capability to consume data from third-party tools, analysed and generated a cloud feasibility report for each separate location.

  • Using the network discovery option, SurPaaS® identified and displayed the servers running with IBM AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows operating systems.

  • Along with suitable cloud flavor recommendations for each server, SurPaaS® allowed the customer to select a preferred cloud flavor for specific servers.

The Result

Migration strategy for the servers was defined using SurPaaS®, while adhering to the customer’s security standards and utilising the data already available from the customer.

 


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