GlobalLogic Provides Consultation Services for Database Cloud Migration
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- GlobalLogic Consultation Services
Tech Stack
- Cloud Migration
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
This UK-based banking and insurance group has over 30 million business and retail customers globally, who are served through a network of well-known subsidiary brands. The group operates in an industry that is heavily reliant on technology and where continuous revolution is required to keep pace with advancements in technology and customer expectations. The company is a major player in the financial services sector, with a significant presence in the UK and a reputation for innovation and customer service. The group is committed to leveraging technology to enhance its operations and customer offerings, making it a leader in the integration of digital solutions in the banking and insurance industries.
The Challenge
While the client currently hosts the majority of their workloads on servers within their own data centers, there is a long term strategy to migrate these workloads to public and private cloud. In pursuit of this strategy a program is underway to vacate two data centers. In order to achieve this the client must move approximately 350 workloads hosted on various bare-metal and virtual servers from those data centers to public and private cloud. While this process is challenging in itself, a variety of factors contributed to the complexity, including: Contention with in-flight remediation and consolidation work, workload requirements that do not align with target platform capabilities, workloads that span different teams within the Group and have shared responsibility, systems that are end-of-life or out of support, the ongoing discovery of new opportunities for consolidation, and software currency.
The Solution
In order to assist the client with carrying out their long term strategy, GlobalLogic engaged with business and technical client stakeholders to build up a holistic view of the current program. This was followed by consultation with the application teams to produce design artifacts and navigate design authority review for multiple applications in parallel. GlobalLogic used a structured approach in eliciting information about systems, analyzing data and producing design documents. This involved engaging with application SMEs to learn about the applications and document key information, analyzing applications and recommending exit strategies (6R’s), producing high level design artifacts aligned with the data centre exit strategy, taking proposals to the relevant design authority review board in conjunction with client solution architects, and handover of approved design artifact to client and to the team as input to detailed designs. GlobalLogic not only acted as the technical authority for workloads that are shared across the business but also provided advice and material support to application teams in pursuit of agreeing exit strategies for the data centre workloads.
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