They asked for quotes on replacement hardware. We showed them why another 5-year hardware cycle would just lock in the same fragility - then moved them to Azure instead, with disaster recovery built in from day one.
THE CHALLENGE
The manufacturer's on-prem servers were end-of-life, and the ask was simple: quote replacement hardware. But the real picture underneath was a recurring capex cycle, single-site failure risk with no disaster recovery, and an IT team spending its time patching boxes instead of supporting the business.
The Real Problem Underneath
Replacing the hardware would have solved nothing - it just resets the same 5-year clock, with the same single point of failure sitting behind it.
Skip the refresh. Move the workloads to Azure, and the fragility goes away with the server room.
OUR APPROACH
We didn't quote hardware. We assessed what was actually running, moved it without disrupting production, and built in the protection the old setup never had. Step through each phase.
Before any workload moved, we needed to know exactly what was running, how it depended on everything else, and what "right-sized" actually meant for each one.
Outcomes
Full dependency map completed in 3 weeks, uncovering 18% of provisioned capacity that wasn't actually being used.
THE SOLUTION
The reason the migration didn't break anything. Azure Migrate assessed and right-sized the entire on-prem estate before a single workload moved, mapping dependencies so nothing got sequenced wrong.
THE OUTCOME
14 weeks
from discovery to fully migrated
Zero
unplanned production downtime during the move
32%
lower infrastructure spend in year one
Built-in DR
first real disaster recovery in the company's history
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