client
Fortune 50 Insurance Company
Customer Overview
Leading global provider of insurance, annuities & employee benefit programs
$48B in annual revenue
IT spend of $1,249M (44% Infrastructure, 56%ADM)
Highly complex/integrated IT infrastructure and teams of highly skilled operations technicians, infrastructure engineers, and architects
Business Problem
After acquisition of a subsidiary of another company, the acquirer had a daunting task of migrating the newly acquired DC into its existing DC
Both timeline and budget were a constraint
Approach
Discovery of existing components at the newly acquired DC
Post analysis, it was decided that the existing HW was obsolete
Build out new infrastructure, that would provide HA and DR needs
Conducted detail discovery of applications to be migrated
Created a detail migration plan & migrated applications to new env
Worked with existing ops team to define the future operational model of the combined data center
Outcome
Successful management of many moving parts -HW procurement, meeting with business to detail out migration plan, implementing a through communication plan
Implementations of newly procured HW
Well defined operational processes and chargeback mechanisms; DR and rollback strategy has been detailed
Completed migration of approximately 60 applications
Meticulous execution of a large, complex, and highly-visible initiative
