Engineering Organization Relies on ePlus to Evolve from the Data Center to a Hybrid Cloud Solution
Leverages existing technology investments and skillsets while migrating, operating, and managing workloads in the public cloud
Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The company decided not to renew the lease on its headquarters and sought to migrate all systems to a cloud solution.
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Challenge 2
The customer was looking to use the opportunity to move existing applications and simultaneously upgrade to an infrastructure that could support modern applications and future product development needs.
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Challenge 3
Requirements included improved disaster recovery capabilities and additional ransomware protection.
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Why ePlus?
- ePlus has a long standing, strategic relationship with the customer for most of its IT infrastructure, including servers, network, storage, backup, disaster recovery, anti-virus and more (currently under a lease agreement).
- Throughout a detailed discovery session, ePlus worked closely with the customer to evaluate each application to determine if it should be modernized and moved to AWS native or lifted and shifted to VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS. ePlus’ extensive experience with both AWS and VMC were valuable and utilized to create a complete cloud strategy that will serve the customer today, and into the future.
Solution
- VMware Cloud on AWS for all primary traditional workloads
- VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR)
- NetApp ONTAP FSxN on AWS for file services
- Amazon EC2 for development and test environments
- Amazon EKS for modern applications
- Cisco Virtual Firepower Threat Defense (vFTD) on AWS for security and connectivity
- ePlus Cloud Professional Services to design, deploy, and migrate workloads without disruption to meet the customer’s deadline to vacate the building on-time and within budget
Business Outcomes
- With the ePlus VMware Cloud on AWS solution in place, the customer can migrate and modernize applications to cloud-native services over time without disruption to revenue streams or application development time.
- The solution provides a flexible hybrid cloud model that allows the organization to operate and manage workloads on a familiar VMware platform while providing adjacency to AWS to enable cloud‑native innovation and modernization after migration.
- This approach has taken them to a completely managed infrastructure with high-speed, low-latency public cloud adjacency. They have been able to maintain their current data protection and business continuance requirements and eliminate all data center and real estate needs.
- They get the benefit of the same three-year VMware total cost of ownership they had previously while adding important new features such as VMware NSX, which enables advanced networking and security services as well as enhanced data protection leveraging disaster recovery as-a-service and ransomware protection.
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