The question every leader should ask this week:
"If my Cloud provider went down tomorrow, would my business stay online and remain trading?"
If the answer isn't a confident "yes," it's time to reconsider your business continuity strategy...
Recent outages from AWS (20-10-25) and Azure (30-10-25) left global organisations offline for hours. Critical applications went dark, disrupting entire operations, along with the associated revenue streams and the cost of a workforce unable to work!
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The Challenge
The Customer was working through a partnership disaggregation from a consortium IT Service to regain IT autonomy, underpinned by a strategic MSP partnership to augment limited in-house IT skills. The Customer went to market to seek a single supplier to accelerate the immediate requirement and support their long-term digital strategy to modernise IT with 'better use of data for insights and improvements'. With data sovereignty being a key concern for the Customer, a UK-based service provider was essential.
The Solution
The Customer engaged Exponential-e to deliver a fully managed IT service, including:
- End to end migration of critical systems and workloads into Azure.
- UK-based Managed Cloud Services for Azure-based workloads.
- Dedicated IaaS for localised/sensitive workloads
- UK-based user service desk for ~400 end users.
- Onsite support function.
- Lifecycle management of end user devices.
- Local Area Network deployment and management.
- Wide Area Network.
The full stack solution provided excellent value to the Customer, allowing them to accelerate the disaggregation through a single supplier partnership.
The solution was fully delivered by Exponential-e delivery services - Project Management, Azure Migration Specialists, User Specialists, Service Management and Onboarding Teams over a period of eight months. This ensured the project was delivered on time and budget to meet the transition targets defined by the Customer.
Solution Benefits
- Deployment and configuration of CAF-aligned Azure Landing Zones.
- Azure Migrate-based migration of Windows Server and Linux Virtual Servers to Azure.
- Migration of 9TB file data to Azure Files.
- Infrastructure resiliency with Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup.
- Deployment of Intune and MEM for unified device management.
- Unified identity services through Microsoft Entra.
- Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365.
- Seamless cutover of user support services.
- Optimised wireless network coverage within key user locations.
- Three-Year Azure Savings Plan for cost control over contract terms.
Azure Stack HCI
The Good, The Bad & The Hybrid
In this exclusive whitepaper from Exponential-e's Cloud transformation specialist, James Pearce, discover how the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure is transforming the way organisations design, deploy, and manage cutting-edge IT infrastructure, along with a proven roadmap for its successful implementation.
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Across both the public and private sectors, organisations have been accelerating their Cloud transformation plans for more than a decade now. What began as a rather niche technology has now become an intrinsic part of enterprise infrastructure, to the extent virtually every organisation utilises Cloud platforms of some description. And that's great! As the past seventeen years have demonstrated, there are numerous advantages to Cloud adoption, from the inherent scalability and agility to the potential for enhanced security across the most highly distributed infrastructure.
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A new approach to managing and hosting critical data in support of the UK's Defence and national security
In a comparatively short space of time, the integrity of the UK's data has become a top priority for our Defence sector, with bad actors mounting an increasingly sophisticated range of attacks to disrupt critical services, potentially putting lives at risk and compromising our national security.
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The Challenge
The customer embarked on a strategic digital transformation by migrating critical business systems from fragmented on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This transition would not only modernise their IT operations across five European countries but also deliver significant financial savings and operational efficiencies through smart licensing and resource planning.
Throughout the transformation process, the customer faced challenges with maintaining disparate legacy systems across multiple locations, which led to inefficiencies, high operational costs, and limited scalability. They needed a unified, secure, and scalable Cloud platform to support business growth and enable remote working capabilities.
The Solution
The customer engaged Exponential-e to deliver a phased Azure migration strategy, including:
- Professional Services for planning, governance, and execution
- Managed Services for ongoing support and optimization
- CSP services for Azure resource billing
The migration was executed in stages across five European and UK locations, using a combination of rehosting and rebuilding application servers. Microsoft technologies such as Azure Migrate, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Virtual Desktop were key enablers.
The project was delivered collaboratively between the customer's internal IT team and Exponential-e's consultants, ensuring alignment with business goals and knowledge transfer. The approach followed Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework, ensuring best practices in governance, security, and operational readiness. The successful implementation positioned the customer for future innovation and growth on a modern Cloud foundation.
Solution Benefits
- Migration of 38 Virtual Machines to Azure.
- Implementation of 2 x 100TB GRS Reserved Backup Instances.
- Licensing of 48 x SQL Server Standard (two Core Packs).
- Licensing of 22 x Windows Server 2022 Datacentre (eight Core Packs).
- Overall savings of £100,000 on Azure spend through strategic use of Microsoft Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
- Improved governance, scalability, and remote working capabilities.
- Consolidation of infrastructure across five countries into a single Cloud platform .
Azure Stack HCI
The Good, The Bad & The Hybrid
In this exclusive whitepaper from Exponential-e's Cloud transformation specialist, James Pearce, discover how the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure is transforming the way organisations design, deploy, and manage cutting-edge IT infrastructure, along with a proven roadmap for its successful implementation.
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Selecting the right storage architecture is essential for organisations that are leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data and IoT analytics. For example, AI applications that involve scientific and medical research create and interact with numerous large files, and therefore need a storage system that can scale to a petabyte level, with zero restrictions. Similarly, ML applications and Big Data projects require a scalable, cost-effective storage solution to accommodate the high volumes of data that will be produced. This raises the question of which storage solution enterprises should use to underpin their overall analytics strategies.
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Although digital transformation amongst Legal firms has typically been comparatively slow compared to other sectors, the journey has picked up speed over the course of the last decade.
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Organisations' demands of their IT infrastructure continue to evolve at an unprecedented rate, with the drive for growth and innovation needing to be balanced against the need to maintain cost control, visibility, and - crucially, cyber security. Numerous solutions have emerged in response to these challenges, but one of the most pivotal questions organisations must answer is whether to host their critical data and applications on-site, or in the Cloud.
Let's explore the respective advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, and then consider whether the increasing sophistication of modern workloads demand a new approach...
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The way organisations design, deploy, manage, and scale their IT infrastructure has changed in ways that would have been inconceivable just ten years ago.
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As organisations generate, manage, and store more data than ever before, it's not hard to see why the ongoing march of Cloud transformation shows no signs of slowing down. But for all the Cloud's advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability, and cost control, it is not suitable for every application.
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As part of an ongoing effort to offer greater consistency and transparency across their full range of solutions, Microsoft have recently announced several pricing updates.
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