Case Study | Jan 2020
MerakiPoint provided Cloud Governance Strategy to a Retailer for better ROI
Many organizations have moved to cloud services but failed to adopt proper cloud governance policies; therefore, they fail to reap the many benefits that cloud computing offers. Further, most organizations do not have mechanisms to measure their cloud governance maturity and may not identify opportunities for improvement for better ROI.
Background
Our Client is a Retailer who was growing very fast and its applications were facing scalability and security challenges.
MerakiPoint was engaged to assess organization's cloud computing maturity level, build cloud governance strategy and present a roadmap for the cloud transition.
Key Challenges
Scalability & Vulnerability: With retailer growing fast, applications cannot scale and subjected to un-authorized access as well.
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Low Awareness: about cloud capabilities and cloud governance.
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Change Management: skepticism about the value of cloud capabilities lead to resistance in adoption.
Our Solution
MerakiPoint performed an in-depth review of technology infrastructure which resulted in the gap analysis between the current and the desired state.
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The team also performed various cloud technologies evaluation with the desired state as the objective and provided the recommendations accordingly.
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Thereafter, team engaged stakeholders at various levels to prepare a viable and cost-effective roadmap for the cloud transformation. Key objectives of this transformation was to meet the objective of scalability, security, cost-effectiveness and change management.
Tech Stack
\ Azure \ Azure VMs \ Azure Storage
Value Delivered
Provided flexibility to business to scale up or down the infrastructure without spending a fortune on capital expenditure.
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99.9% availability of applications across regions.
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Reduction in operating expense on IT infrastructure by 15-20%.
