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Overview
A global building material manufacturer chose Birlasoft as a partner to enable cloud migration and support for their hybrid footprint. The engagement involved migration of SAP from on-premise legacy infrastructure to AWS, and managing the end-end hybrid footprint.
Challenges
- Spread of disparate tools and processes across geographies
- Move away from the CapEx model
- Need for a focused team for hybrid footprint operations with a dedicated team for project/build work
Solution
In addition to the AWS migration, Birlasoft’s engagement with the client also included:
- Managing global data center operations
- Transformation to hyperconverged architecture
- Transforming and migrating on-premise applications/infra to hybrid cloud
- Managing the AWS operations across the globe (2000+ instances)
- Upgradation of SAP – Apps and Infra on HANA
- 8000+ Lotus Domino users to Gmail
- Optimization and harmonization of backup process and infrastructure
- Global implementation of Avamar
- Running and managing the global network operations center
- Global implementation of Altiris (Software Deployment and Patching)
- VMWare Environment standardization – VMware upgraded to N-1 version
- Consolidating multiple OEM firewalls to Cisco landscape
- Delivery of 200+ build projects
The upcoming areas include –
- Marketplace for services published as catalogs for users to consume and fully automate at the backend
- Move from single cloud strategy to multi-cloud strategy in the future, leveraging best of each cloud and using a workload placement strategy
AWS Services - AWS EC2, AWS S3, VPC, EBS Volumes, Application load balancer, R53
Value Created
With Birlasoft, the customer experienced the following benefits -
- Business driven and region-wise migration to the cloud
- Improved turnaround time for product delivery and faster time-to-market
- Significant reduction in vulnerabilities, and improved operational excellence and compliance
- Increased operational efficiency and move to OpEx model
