Real Estate Company Expands Relationship with ePlus to Deliver Azure Disaster Recovery and Migration Services
Consolidates disaster recovery infrastructure into a single site for reduced operational expenses and capital expenditures while supporting application modernization initiatives
Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The real estate organization has a diversified portfolio of property management, energy, and investment services, for which they maintain multiple data centers and a mesh of wide area network (WAN) services to provide applications supporting their revenue.
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Challenge 2
They needed a cost-effective way to provide disaster recovery services, lowering their capital and operational costs by maintaining multiple data centers while providing the revenue assurance supported by their applications.
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Challenge 3
The customer wanted to evolve their application services to leverage cloud technologies for the longer term to provide new service offerings and solutions to their customers.
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Why ePlus?
- ePlus is a market leader in helping customers achieve their business goals through creative technical solutions.
- ePlus had an existing relationship with the organization, providing their data center infrastructure, WAN solution, core and edge networking services, and data protection solutions.
- As a trusted partner, the customer sought the advice and assistance of ePlus to help them operationalize their disaster recovery and cloud initiatives.
Solution
Azure Disaster Recovery and Migration Services
- ePlus engaged with the customer to discover the business and technical requirements for the disaster recovery services in scope.
- ePlus created a flexible and cost-effective disaster recovery solution leveraging the organization’s existing investment in Zerto for replication combined with the elasticity of the Azure cloud to migrate their disaster recovery services.
- As part of the initiative, ePlus also delivered a foundational deployment of Azure cloud services to enable software testing and modernization of their applications longer term.
Business Outcomes
- The real estate company was able to begin the retirement of one of their data centers, which provided disaster recovery services on-premises. In doing so, they were able to consolidate their infrastructure into a single site— reducing their operational expenses to maintain the site and the capital required to expand their infrastructure at the primary site.
- The customer has the ability to harness the scalability and agility of the Azure cloud to support their recovery with a consumption-based financial model for just-in-time provisioning and billing of recovery services, further reducing their capital and operating costs.
- The organization has started their procurement application modernization initiative in Azure, leveraging the foundational design and deployment provided by ePlus. The consumption of Azure IaaS and PaaS services helped the customer lower application licensing costs while providing enhanced availability and reachability for their employees.
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