Case study: Insurance Company - DR Workload and Migration to Azure

Our customer was an award-winning global insurance company serving private business and individuals.

The customer was unhappy with their current Datacentre disaster recovery (DR) solution and approached Ultima to gain access to our in-house available expertise around Azure, M365, and automation.

Requirements

The organisation’s UK division needed to transform its existing Azure architecture:

• Enabling them to achieve Cloud best practice
• Enabling them to migrate their DR requirements into Azure for their core applications from an existing datacentre

The existing DR solution was on-premises orientated. The new solution required migrating some workloads to run 24/7, while others would be Azure Site Recovery-enabled for replication from the primary datacentre. The 24/7 workloads also required a much smaller cost footprint.

Outcomes

The partnership delivered several outcomes:

• A reduction in on-premises footprint
• Dedicated DR datacentre capex
• Switch to operational DR costs with the ability to perform anytime test drills

The Ultima Effect

The reset and enablement of a best practice Azure landing zone and newly created DR capabilities means the customer’s Azure environment is now the main area of new and future developments. We took the customer through our CAF-aligned plan, ready and adoption; design through to implementation.