Global Defense Company Partners with ePlus to Develop Cloud and Data Center Strategy

Driving agility, security, and cost efficiency for defense and aerospace projects

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Business Challenges

Challenge 1

The aerospace company’s existing data center was out of space and power and did not meet Department of Defense requirements. The cost of renovations was estimated to be more than $15 million.

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Challenge 2

The customer needed to quantify the total cost of ownership (TCO) to evaluate multiple options and develop a data center and cloud strategy that meets compliance requirements in a cost-effective manner.

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Why ePlus

To address these issues, the defense company partnered with ePlus to conduct a multi-cloud readiness assessment that evaluated the feasibility and benefits of migrating the current IT environment to AWS GovCloud and/or Microsoft Azure for Government.
ePlus had the technical expertise and assessment methodology to deliver a comprehensive TCO analysis, identify cost-saving opportunities, and develop a roadmap for cloud adoption.

Solution

Multi-Cloud Readiness Assessment

Comprehensive review of technical requirements, business requirements, facilities, technologies, architecture, team capabilities, and organizational structure
Deliverables included assessment findings, recommendations, roadmap, and total cost of ownership analysis of different operating models

Business Outcomes

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Custom-Built Roadmap for Modernization and Efficiency

A dedicated delivery team from ePlus worked with the customer’s key stakeholders to provide rapid delivery in just six weeks. After careful assessment of existing application and cloud architectures, hardware and security requirements, data center limitations, organizational structure, and performance metrics, ePlus presented detailed TCO comparisons of cloud migration, data center, and colocation options. The defense company is now armed with a detailed roadmap that includes both technology and business recommendations for the future.

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Actionable Insight for Data-Backed Decisions

The customer was able to make an informed strategic decision on how to best expand their IT footprint with full transparency into associated cost models and ROI. Based on ePlus’ recommendations to deploy a hybrid data center strategy, the organization will build out a colocation data center (at a facility that is fully compliant with the DoD contract requirements) with modern, high-density compute and networking equipment while also acting on the identified cloud-ready applications to migrate to a government cloud service provider. The customer anticipates projected savings of more than $12M over the next three years, including a full hardware refresh, to migrate to an optimized colocation/cloud model by avoiding the $15M data center facilities upgrade.