200
VMs migrated seamlessly
40%
Reduction in infrastructure costs
The client is a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions for banks, credit unions, retailers, and government institutions, providing mobile retail banking solutions to over 2,800 financial institutions and serving a user base exceeding 9 million. They help their clients through innovation in account processing, digital banking solutions, card issuing, merchant acquiring, payment gateways, and cloud-based point-of-sale solutions.
Challenge
The client needed to migrate and modernize their on-premises mobile retail banking solution hosted on VMware to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce product deployment cycles. Their primary challenges included:
- Lengthy deployment cycles, hindering innovation and responsiveness to market demands
- Aging infrastructure and increasing operational overhead
- Scalability and resilience issues affecting business-critical applications
Solution
To ensure a smooth transition, a phased migration strategy was implemented:
- Discovery & Assessment: Portfolio rationalization to identify optimal migration pathways.
- Fast Migrate: Lift-and-shift applications into Microsoft Azure to reduce downtime.
- Cloud Modernization: Adoption of cloud-native services including Kubernetes, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation for enhanced performance.
Impact
- 200 Virtual Machines migrated seamlessly.
- 16 applications refactored to Azure Cloud-native services.
- 99.9% uptime for business-critical applications.
- Reduced technical debt and eliminated end-of-life (EOL) VMs.
- Deployment time reduced from weeks to minutes.
- Improved scalability, flexibility, and resiliency, ensuring a future-proof cloud infrastructure.
- Lower operational overhead and optimized cloud costs.
- 40% reduction in infrastructure cost
This transformation enabled the financial institution to innovate faster, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency while delivering an improved digital experience for millions of users.
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