Challenges
- Build a nationwide public cloud equivalent to Amazon Web Services
- Reduce the total cost of ownership by eliminating outdated infrastructure
- Existing internal applications need to be migrated to new cloud
- Takes over eight weeks to on-board customers with existing applications
Solutions
- Cloud data center build-out
- Migration technology and partner selection
- Application migration process development
- Cloud governance structure
- Customer migration service offering
Results
- Client migrated 50% of its internal IT operations to the new cloud
- Reduced application migration time to minutes
- Increased customer close rate by 30%
- Reduced capital expenditures by 75% over the first two quarters
- Dropped ratio of systems administrators to servers by 50% in the first six months