Alongside COVID-19, PISCEU faced several other challenges, such as updating all affected systems to the latest version and considering dependent applications. The company also had to coordinate with more than 40 Panasonic entities to avoid disrupting business operations. Finally, PISCEU had to manage a parallel SAP project, taking into account the technical dependencies and resulting resource constraints for the migration project.
SoftwareOne’s cloud migrations services included:
- Assessment of current state and requirements
- Assessment of migration approach, efforts and costs
- Migration concept creation and implementation
- Infrastructure design for Azure configuration and operation
- Data migration and application re-deployment by implementing Azure Files, Azure Backup and Azure Defender
SoftwareOne teams in different CEE countries migrated the on-premises computing power of 11 sites. PISCEU's separate network transition to the cloud took longer due to COVID-19 related constraints, such as the physical delivery of hardware, but timings for the cloud migration project remained on track. The three main sites were completed individually but, as the project progressed, smaller sites were migrated in tandem.
Although each location had different requirements and scale, identical templates were used for the migration infrastructure. As a result, all locations were streamlined to the same configuration in Azure, and 110 Terrabyte of data and 5 application servers were migrated in total. The data centre migration itself included a lift-and-shift of 170 servers and 50 other services to the Azure cloud.
As the migration proceeded, SoftwareOne also began supporting PISCEU with its Cloud Managed Services for Azure. SoftwareOne’s team in Poland acts as part of the PISCEU team, helping with Azure environment maintenance, first-line ticketing support and incident and change management requests. In the meantime, SoftwareOne’s global team provides managed cloud computing services and advisory support with monthly meetings. This support includes recommendations for ongoing Azure optimisation.