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Cloud to Co-lo Migration
Case Study
We saved our client $1.5 million over a 5 year period.
The Problem:
Our client's CFO asked us to come in & analyze their information technology infrastructure & expense. Their apps & data were being hosted by a 3rd party Cloud provider in Las Vegas. They were having many problems with their environment including slowness, connectivity problems, & servers going down.
Their desktop ticket count was being sustained, on average, at 150 tickets.
Their Cloud hosting expense was $32,000 per month.
How We Helped
Our client has 4 manufacturing plants in two states so an on-premise solution was not ideal. We recommended purchasing a state of the art, 3 server cluster solution to be hosted at a local data center which was best in class.
The HW & SW purchased has a useful life of at least 5 years. It is under warranty for 5 years but it can be extended. The cluster provides redundancy with 24/7/365 uptime. All of their equipment had redundant hardware to avoid the single point of failure.
The co-lo gave them 24/7/365 uptime with redundant Internet & electricity in a secure facility. The local datacenter we recommended is where Cloud providers host their servers.
Their monthly expense went from $32,000/month to $1,450/month. The cost of the cluster & the rack buildout in the co-location facility was $282,817 which included labor.
Cloud to Co-location Facility Savings
Annual Cloud Hosting Fee $384,000
Hardware & Software Investment $282,817
Annual Co-lo fees $17,400
Savings 1st Year $83,783
Savings 2nd-5th Year $366,600 per year
Total Savings for 5 Years $1,550,183
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Desktop Tickets Resolved
We deep dived into their environment & their tickets eventually went from a sustained 150 tickets down to 30 tickets on average for 330 employees. The ongoing problems our engineers solved:
Citrix Problems:
We resolved the largest problem of consistent slow performance by upgrading their Citrix servers to the latest version. We also increased the number of servers from 16 to 28, & increased the RAM on each Citrix server from 8 GB to 24GB. For power users, we provided dedicated Citrix servers.
Virtual Server Corruption on Main Drive:
Their main drive was 9TB & had underlying corruption. We migrated their data to 2 (ea) fresh Microsoft Windows Server 2022 instances.
Printer problems:
We added more resources to their print servers & updated the print drivers.
Excel Power User:
After the Citrix upgrades, this power user continued to have problems with Excel slowness. Our engineer looked at the Excel spreadsheet & determined that the spreadsheet was so large & complex, that every time she added data, it was calculating the entire spreadsheet. It was switched to calculate manually only.
Internet Speed:
We upgraded all 4 of their locations Internet speed to 1GB. One locations only had 20MB. And we provided redundant 100MB Internet lines with an automated failover.
Further Accomplishments
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For a disaster recovery/business continuity solution, we replicate their servers to a Cloud-based solution for $4,000/year;
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Their 3 physical server cluster is monitored 24/7/365 with a cloud-based system for $60/month;
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Their 44 virtual machines are monitored, for a one time configuration fee, with a Nagios solution that is constantly tuned & upgraded for additional monitoring points.
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