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 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 .
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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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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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