A global pharmaceutical manufacturing company with a vast IT infrastructure spread across 15 data centers on multiple continents was focused on identifying the on-premises IT assets and applications to evaluate their potential migration to AWS.
Challenges
The company faced several challenges in managing its IT infrastructure and planning a migration to the cloud. Their environment contained 300 virtual machines and 1000 applications in 15 data centers across 3 continents.
The customer had limited comprehensive visibility into their IT estate, the business applications connectivity and service paths across the environment, and was subject to strict industry regulations, complicating cloud migration efforts. They needed to reduce Microsoft SQL server licensing costs and get insights into their workloads, potential cloud costs and OS and application end-of-life risks.
CloudSphere Solution
To address these challenges CloudSphere ran an AWS Optimized Licensing Assessment and deploying CloudSphere across all data centers to run a discovery and provide the customer with the insights and data they needed to evaluate the migration cost and efforts.
Outcomes
Within one week CloudSphere delivered results and insights that included:
- Discovering of over 1000 COTS and propriety applications and their business applications services paths and dependencies knowledge graph
- Infrastructure performance metrics and optimized TCO for multiple AWS pricing plans for EC2 compute and storage.
- Discovered a 55% annual cost reduction TCO by opting for a 3-year reserved instance and right-sizing their virtual machines in AWS.
- Application and OS end-of-life analysis showing 57 operating systems that were out of support and security patches and 2 applications that were out of support.
- A 25% reduction in Microsoft SQL server licensing optimization
- Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and VMware workloads analysis for migration planning
- Migration wave recommendations based on application complexity scores
By leveraging CloudSphere’s platform, the global pharmaceutical company successfully addressed its complex IT challenges. The solution not only accelerated the cloud migration planning process but also uncovered significant cost-saving opportunities. This case study demonstrates the value of comprehensive IT estate visibility in driving successful cloud migration strategies for large, complex organizations with CloudSphere and AWS.