Microland drives digital transformation journey of an FTSE top 250 company with the help of Microsoft Azure

Very few companies can say that they engage with their customers in myriad ways that improve their lives daily – from booking a local squash court, getting a visa processed, or feeling secure that society’s most vulnerable are receiving the care they need. Our client is one of those exceptional companies. If it’s a public service, they make it happen. The scale, range, and importance of the client’s day-to-day operations touch millions of lives every second of every day. 

The client requirements were to retire two datacenters by migrating all operational services into Microsoft Azure. Further, they wanted to rationalize and simplify where possible, retire services no longer required, improve service reliability, and minimize disruption to services during the transition. Achieving these would mean draining the two data centers that had been in place for over 20 years hosting 900+ physical and virtual servers, along with storage and networking infrastructure. The criticality of this infrastructure can be explained by the fact that it hosted 90+ applications with 100+ interfaces and these applications were processing payroll and pension for over 40,000 government employees.