Manufacturer Turns to ePlus to Leverage the AWS Storage Ecosystem for Enhanced Scale, Agility, and Data Protection with Decreased Cost

Moves critical data offsite to AWS, providing a secure and cost-effective solution that enhances business continuity

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Challenge 1

The company sought to migrate critical data to AWS in order to provide data protection and out-of-region recoverability for critical workloads.

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Challenge 2

They wanted to decrease Capex and forego spend required by an on-premises data center hardware refresh.

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Challenge 3

The customer needed to securely store data and provide the ability for virtually unlimited scale to meet new workload demand.

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Status as an AWS APN Advanced Partner with a proven methodology of migrating data and applications to AWS
Existing relationship with the customer and a keen understanding of their business operations as well as their technology infrastructure
Ability to bring security and governance architecture and deployment by default to meet the needs of the regulated data environments

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ePlus engaged with the customer in the Assessment Phase to discover the business and technical requirements for the data and application in scope. This included building an economic model as well as understanding application and versioning requirements of components residing in the Hybrid Cloud environment.
During the Mobilize Phase, migration wave and test planning were created. The AWS account holding the data was provisioned via the ePlus Solution Provider Program (SPP), which simplified billing and AWS consumption.
The Migration Phase consisted of leveraging the on-premises application with extended scale-out storage available on AWS S3. Data was populated in the secure S3 environment with best practices for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and key management.
Testing and validation was performed to vet the solution and ensure the durability and scale of the solution

The customer was able to take advantage of the enormous scale and agility of the AWS storage ecosystem and gained the ability to address new workloads and provide multi-region options, allowing for enhanced data protection.
Data security was achieved through the usage of best practices for Identity and Access Management along with key management for encryption and logging for auditing purposes.
The customer was able to forego on-premises data center storage refresh costs by leveraging cost-effective tiers of AWS storage such as Infrequent Access (IA).
Business continuity was enhanced with fast access to data and recovery options.

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