Power & Energy - Cloud Infrastructure Case Study

Clients struggle to determine the proper use cases and application workload profiles for cloud database deployments. They need help
weighing the options and making data-driven decisions.

Use Case:

This national energy company faced a large-scale hardware refresh and licensing renewal cycle and needed to assess all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to build a business case for cloud migration or on-prem investment. They leveraged CloudGenera’s platform to assess over 650 on-prem SQL deployments to determine if there was an opportunity to reduce cost by migrating to the cloud. In addition to cost savings, the client prioritized adopting PaaS solutions and eliminating technical debt as motivators for cloud migration.

Business Outcomes:

The CloudGenera analytics engine generated executive reporting dashboards used to identify priority move groups based on positive ROI, addressing technical debt and cloud readiness for migration.  

CloudGenera’s CloudAssist assessed all major public CSP’s catalogs and identified the best-fit instance mappings. Transformation models were generated for PaaS migrations, Bring Your Own License (BYOL) solutions, development/testing environment options, and right-sizing opportunities.

In under one month, all 650 SQL deployments were assessed. The client had conviction and direction in their cloud adoption strategy; empowered with data-driven marketplace analysis for their vendors to begin execution.