Manufacturer Relies on ePlus for Streamlined Cloud Disaster Recovery

Meets aggressive timeline with increased resiliency and decreased risk, saving 30% on services engagement cost

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Challenge 1

The customer needed to replace its VMC on AWS Disaster Recovery system due to the solution becoming end of life.

Challenge 2

They sought to move quickly to avoid unexpected risk exposure of unprotected workloads in the event of downtime.

Challenge 3

They needed to align with a corporate strategy focusing on Microsoft Azure as the preferred platform.

Challenge 4

The customer hoped to keep costs as low as possible while taking on this unplanned project.

ePlus has demonstrated experience helping organizations achieve their business goals through creative technical solutions.
ePlus had an existing relationship with the customer providing Azure design, deployment, and management for a subsidiary.
ePlus applied vital expertise to enable a mixed design and deployment process, which allowed the customer to minimize wasted effort while iterating the design.
ePlus was able to utilize Microsoft funding to decrease costs to the customer.

Cloud Disaster Recovery

ePlus engaged with the customer to discover business and technical requirements for the Tier 1 applications that directly impacted the core of the business.
ePlus reviewed existing designs from the VMC on AWS DR solution to identify and understand requirements and design decisions made in the past.
ePlus supported deployment of foundational resources based on the preliminary design to move the project forward to mitigate risk as quickly as possible.
ePlus continuously adjusted the design in concert with the customer as new challenges and requirements were identified. This more agile methodology was critical to customer success and time to completion.
ePlus pivoted the solution from one replication platform to another during the scoping process, and also provided increased design flexibility during deployment to support customer timelines.
ePlus collaborated with the Microsoft account team to champion the customer for their funding process to reduce the cost of the solution.

The customer was able to meet very aggressive timelines for the initial build, data replication, and disaster recovery infrastructure testing with guidance and support from the ePlus team.
The combination of ePlus design and deployment services decreased risk to the business by fast-tracking the design and build process and achieving better results more quickly.
The customer was able to establish organizational confidence with the solution through continuous recovery testing and validation led by the ePlus team. The initial disaster recovery tests provided all connectivity and core services to support full recovery of applications meeting the required RPO and RTO targets of one hour and 24 hours, respectively.
They were able improve their overall disaster recovery design through simplification and streamlining of the network design. Moving to a single firewall stack reduced complexity, time spent on maintenance tasks, and recovery time. In addition, the organization enjoys lower costs for recovery by leveraging economies of scale for cloud infrastructure and on-demand capacity.
ePlus was able to reduce the cost of the services engagement by 30% by working closely with the Microsoft team to leverage funding options.

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