Earth Moving Migration

A global mining services and supplier had chosen to end an existing hosting contract and were now facing an urgent deadline to migrate business critical applications and exit from their data centre. The company needed a cloud hosting platform that offered resiliency, scalability and a lower cost base. Their challenge was to successfully, and quickly, perform the migration while avoiding business downtime or risking the loss of any data.

To ensure their first workload migration to AWS went smoothly within the short timeframe, Kablamo came onboard to set up an operational environment on AWS and guide the client with the migration. Kablamo would also provide the key training and documentation that would allow the client’s operations team to manage and grow this new cloud environment on their own.

This global organisation’s first data centre migration into AWS was completed on time (9 weeks), within budget and exactly to scope. Not only did this enable the client to exit their legacy data centre within the necessary timeline, the project set them up to move other global data centres into AWS. The client had a well-governed, best-practice AWS environment, strong network design and connectivity, repeatable frameworks and valuable internal experience to equip them for future cloud migrations. For example, Kablamo developed an automated backup solution, performing incremental rotating backups for all attached EBS volumes on a regular schedule.

Kablamo worked on-site with the mining supplier’s team in Melbourne and shared deep AWS cloud, automation and network experience, combined with Agile ways of working. By working in close collaboration and sharing critical knowledge with the client and its stakeholders, Kablamo ensured both the project’s success and established a strong, cloud-centric future for the company.