Success Story
Migración Lift-Shift server farm - Oct 2024
Introduction
We help organizations modernize their technology infrastructure. Discover how a multinational restaurant chain performed a Rehost on Azure of its Windows servers, strengthening operational continuity, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization, with visible improvements in reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Case Study
Migration and Modernization in the Restaurant Industry
- Client Profile: European multinational in the restaurant industry
- Location: Spain
- Employees: 1,800-1,900
- Migration scenario: Rehost on Azure
- Migrated workloads: Business-critical servers (LOB) and Windows Server systems
As-Is (Initial situation)
The company managed its key applications in its own data center, facing risks of technological obsolescence, high maintenance costs, and the need to comply with European regulations. In addition, it sought to improve operational continuity and maintain control over its infrastructure.
To-Be (Desired goal in Azure)
To have a flexible and secure cloud platform capable of integrating local and Azure resources, optimizing costs, and facilitating regulatory compliance. The goal was to migrate the servers to Azure while maintaining operations, but with greater security, automation, and capacity for future growth.
Solution:
Bravent designed a solution based on Azure Landing Zone architecture, enabling the secure and efficient migration of the client’s servers to the cloud. The project included hybrid resource management and deployment automation, facilitating infrastructure modernization and regulatory compliance.
Results obtained:
- Critical service availability increased by 99.9% thanks to cloud resilience.
- Operating costs reduced by up to 30% by eliminating investments in hardware and data center maintenance.
- Strengthened regulatory compliance with automated evidence and centralized visibility of infrastructure.
- Deployment time for new resources reduced by 70% through automation and centralized management.
- Solid foundation for future modernization toward managed services and containers.
Key technologies:
Azure Landing Zone, Azure Migrate, Azure Arc, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Defender for Cloud.
Solution Architecture
- Network and connectivity: Hub-and-spoke virtual networks.
- Compute: Azure Virtual Machines Windows Server 2022.
- Migration: Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery.
- Management and security: Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Backups, Network Security Groups, and Defender for Cloud.
- Compliance: Azure Policy regulatory and governance.
- Automation: Terraform and Azure DevOps.
- High availability and resilience: Availability Zones.
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