LLP Law Firm – Datacentre Exit and Migration to Azure

Award winning legal firm LLP, with over 150 + employees UK-wide were utilising an on-premises co-lo datacentre for their IT infrastructure.

The customer was looking at alternatives from their existing on-premises requirement and selected Microsoft Azure to place their IT workloads and partnered with Ultima for the migration engagement.

Point of Departure:

The customer was looking at alternatives from their existing on-premises requirements and selected Microsoft Azure to place their IT workloads and partnered with Ultima for the migration engagement.

Key Drivers:

• Lower TCO long term
• Run on latest generation hardware
• Time to market – greater capacity could be easily accessible

Key Technologies:

The existing datacentre utilised VMWare virtualisation and therefor this was a change to the native Microsoft Azure.

Value Provided:

The partnership delivered several outcomes:

• A reduction in on-premises footprint
• Reduced Capex Costs
• Latest Hardware
• Increased available capacity to burst into at will

Win Insight:

Ultima’s value was allowing the customer to utilise our experience to streamline and accelerate the migration of their workloads as well as configure Azure to best practice via our CAF-aligned professional services engagement.