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Datacenter Migration Case Study

The Challenge

One of True Up IT ’s customers acquired a smaller company in their market. The acquired company was hosted on an on-premises datacenter. The data center lease was going to expire in six months’ time. As part of the acquisition and integration with existing systems, the company decided to migrate the entire datacenter to AWS. The goal was to migrate all of the infrastructure resources prior to the lease expiration using as much automation as possible.

The True Up IT Solution

The customer partnered with True Up IT to help migrate the entire datacenter to AWS. We did a full application assessment and gathered infrastructure resource and network connectivity requirements. We adopted an infrastructure-as-code approach for provisioning and managing all resources. We built reference architectures, configuration templates and operational processes for automated provisioning and de-provisioning of cloud services. We established data backup and recovery processes to achieve RTO and RPO requirements.

Outcome:

  • The entire data center migration was completed in under 6 months
  • As part of the migration, we built the underlying foundational tooling and processes that further helped migrate other existing applications to public cloud
  • This project enabled the company to get over the initial cusp of adopting public cloud setting the stage for future cloud native development