Global technology solutions provider updates data center to meet stricter security regulations

SHI migrated 180 VMs to VMware Cloud on AWS and created hybrid cloud extension.

Challenge:

The customer’s solution offerings support 10 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world with over 40,000 reps using their solutions annually. This staggering and complex support system needed a data center to handle the significant year-over-year data growth while remaining compliant and secure. Consequently, the customer was scheduled to close their incumbent, outdated data center in New Jersey, and was given a tight deadline to get things running again with new, more stringent security compliance. Due to the nature of their business, security solution components such as next-gen firewalling, logging and reporting, and SOC compliance were of critical importance for designing this new infrastructure.

Solution:

Working under a tight deadline and under the customer’s strict compliance regulations, SHI met with the customer to explore some options, and eventually agreed to VMware Cloud on AWS. SHI’s VMware and AWS solutions engineers finalized a migration solution with the customer, which included designing, architecting, and onboarding the customer into VMware Cloud on AWS while installing and testing a hybrid cloud extension service. In the end, SHI bulk-migrated 180 VMs to VMware Cloud on AWS and met the customer’s deadline, all within budget.

Outcome:

The customer updated their security measures by seamlessly migrating to a secure cloud platform, eliminating the need to refactor applications.