The Challenge
Facilitating datacenter transformation while minimizing overall expenditure
The client needed to mitigate threats pertaining to the complexities and expenses associated with cloud integration. These included:
- Reducing costs across upgrades, software maintenance, operations, managed services and capital spending
- Leveraging next-generation technology for superior efficiency
- Expediting digital transformation
The Objective
Establishing a refactor roadmap for cost-effective digital
The client aimed to establish processes to bypass the existing challenges and meet their goals efficiently. Key objectives included:
- Using automation and cloud economics to optimize cost and operational efficiency
- Devising a refactor roadmap to drive digital transformation
- Curbing future investments and depreciation costs associated with technology and fixed assets
- Eliminating operational and software maintenance expenditure
The Solution
Implementing a unique strategy for cloud optimization and consolidation
With a novel Zero DC approach, HCLTech enabled the integration of state-of-the-art systems, allowing the client to achieve their objectives. Here are some of the solution highlights:
- A multi-region cloud landing zone designed on a hub-and-spoke network
- A secure internet traffic management tool compatible with GCP and BMS
- An archive of sophisticated migration wave group plans
- HCLTech’s DPRIZM for consolidation, optimization and innovation
- An IaaC-based deployment model— OneClick — to ensure high-speed migration
The Impact
Achieving fast and effective server migration and deployment
The client enjoyed significant benefits from the strategy and system implemented by HCLTech Zero DC, which translated to faster and more efficient cloud migration. Key benefits delivered:
- Reduction in carbon footprint, enabled by the migration of 1,500+ servers
- Reduction of deployment time by up to 4 weeks
- Reduction in total cost of ownership by nearly 25%
