Headquartered in New Jersey, the client is a leading provider of bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. With its subsidiaries, the company operates a fleet of 10 self-unloading bulk carriers, including right river class vessels and one river class integrated barge unit and three conventional bulk carriers operating under a contract of affreightment.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

• A remote on-premise data center running on Hyper-V clusters had scalability and uptime challenges. 
• Insufficient bandwidth for replication, data transfer and potential downtime for production VMs running business operations. 
• High CAPEX incurred to manage expensive legacy hardware.
• The client needed a new centralized infrastructure with a multi-site global presence in a short turnaround time.
• The customer needed a cost-effective solution for its development and staging environments.
• A seamless backup solution was needed.

• The customer engaged SNP Technologies to migrate its on-premise infrastructure running on Hyper-V clusters to Microsoft Azure.
• SNP implemented a hybrid environment on Microsoft Azure, leveraging Azure Site Recovery to migrate the client’s virtual machines from an on-premise Hyper-V host to Azure. 
• SNP designed the DR solution with advanced capabilities, including low risk, low downtime, seamless replication, and production environment effectiveness and efficiency.
• SNP verified the applications and roles being performed by the on-premise servers to provide the best options for migrating to virtual machines.
• Development and staging environments were built on the fly.
• SNP deployed the Virtual Network, Subnetting, and Azure Storage Services on Azure as a part of preparing the Azure Infrastructure.
• SNP implemented multi-site VPNs for the client’s remote offices, ensuring Azure is the central site running their infrastructure. 
• SNP Implemented the Azure Site Recovery services and created recovery plans. 
• Automation run-books with recovery plans were applied for minimal RTO.
• Replicated the virtual machines that needed to be migrated from the data center.
• Performed IP mapping between multi-tier application servers.
• Prepared failover batches, and executed the failover based on defined timelines.
• Migrated the infrastructure to achieve RTO and RPO specifications.
• Leveraged recovery services as a backup solution for images and applications.
• Azure Security Center was utilized as a part of Azure Security Implementation.
• SNP’s pre-built solutions were used for operational insights, log analysis and automated assessments of the infrastructure based on industry best practices.
• Deployed Azure managed services for incident management, advanced insights, and optimization management.

• The hybrid approach gave the customer the ease to move its entire infrastructure to Azure in one go without any interruptions on an ongoing basis.
• Security and data protection was enhanced by leveraging network security groups along with virtual networks, subnets, and computers.
• With multi-site VPNs, Azure is the central hub for hosting the server infrastructure required by the client’s various remote offices to manage day to day operations.
• Azure Backup helped the client back up all its workloads faster, more cost effectively and more securely.
• On-demand scalable infrastructure.