Infrastructure Strategy and Optimisation
Customer: IT Service Provider
Industry: Service Provider
Employees: 600
Project Duration: Six Months
Background
Starfish Customer is an AI based risk platform. Their platform runs on AWS, and they engaged Starfish to help define their medium and long-term infrastructure strategy.
Project Objectives
Make a recommended on maintaining AWS, migrating to GCP, or migrating to on premise data centre.
Methodology
• Discovery: Fully understand the current environment and the Customer’s long term requirements.
• Target Architecture: Develop a high-level target architecture based on the requirements.
• Migration Strategy: Propose a migration strategy for each option that minimised platform risk.
• Create Model: Create a financial model and risk model based on the Target Architecture and Migration Strategy.
• Recommendation: Compare the models to make a final recommendation to the Customer.
Outcome
The Customer used the engagement to set their five-year infrastructure strategy by maintaining expanding their AWS environment but renegotiating costs.
Background
Starfish Customer is an AI based risk platform. Their platform runs on AWS, and they engaged Starfish to help define their medium and long-term infrastructure strategy.
Project Objectives
Make a recommended on maintaining AWS, migrating to GCP, or migrating to on premise data centre.
Methodology
• Discovery: Fully understand the current environment and the Customer’s long term requirements.
• Target Architecture: Develop a high-level target architecture based on the requirements.
• Migration Strategy: Propose a migration strategy for each option that minimised platform risk.
• Create Model: Create a financial model and risk model based on the Target Architecture and Migration Strategy.
• Recommendation: Compare the models to make a final recommendation to the Customer.
Outcome
The Customer used the engagement to set their five-year infrastructure strategy by maintaining expanding their AWS environment but renegotiating costs.