Business Challenges

Why ePlus?

• ePlus has demonstrated cloud consulting, cloud migration, and cloud managed services expertise to provide customers with a holistic lifecycle approach to cloud adoption
• ePlus had an existing relationship with the organization, providing data center, network, and security infrastructure (including Cisco UCS, Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, Pure FlashArray storage, Veeam, and VMware) along with engineering services and support
• ePlus provides a differentiated approach to supporting Azure Complete Lifecycle Services, which shepherd customers through their entire cloud journey with a single managed services offering, making us a natural partner to help migrate and manage the company’s Azure infrastructure

Solution

ePlus Azure Complete Lifecycle Services and Cloud Managed Services for Azure

• ePlus engaged with the customer to discover the business and technical requirements for shutting down their disaster recovery site and demonstrated how migration and management of their Azure infrastructure was more cost-effective than replacing their existing hardware
• Through a series of design sessions, ePlus created an Azure cloud solution that would meet the requirements of the customer’s infrastructure, giving them data security and resilience
• ePlus deployed and tested the Azure landing zone solution in concert with the customer
• ePlus provided Cloud Managed Services to accelerate the entire engagement including the migration of the customer’s applications to Azure. This not only solved their immediate business challenges, but also delivered the capability to continue to leverage Azure safely and securely for future business initiatives

Business Outcomes

With ePlus Azure Complete Lifecycle Services, the customer was able to fully transition from on-premises to the cloud through a single engagement, completely orchestrated by ePlus from solution design through post-migration Azure management.

• The customer reduced their technology expenses by 53% in the first year by transitioning from a capital-intense model for hardware and software refreshes to a more steady-state and predictable operating expense model leveraging Azure and ePlus Azure Complete Lifecycle Services.
• The combination of ePlus design and deployment services coupled with ePlus Cloud Managed Services allowed the organization to serve their end-customers more efficiently and effectively by increasing service availability, providing business continuity, and reducing operational expenses associated with customer acquisition and retention.
• The company was able to achieve their goals to decrease capital and operational expenses while elevating the customer experience with minimal to no capital investment.

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