Top Construction Materials Manufacturer Cuts Run Costs with Cloud Migration

A construction materials manufacturer is a leading material supplier for paving, construction, reclamation, and milling services that delivers and installs building materials in highway and building construction.

Challenges

With the move to the cloud, our client originally selected and migrated to Google Cloud as the lowest cost option at the time, but Google prices kept increasing. They were primarily using Microsoft software and wanted to save costs and realize more predictable cloud pricing by moving from Google to Azure. They also needed help in optimizing their Microsoft and cloud license spend.

Our solution

Celsior provided a fixed price, comprehensive solution to assess, plan, design, and migrate the client’s Google estate to Azure, including project management of the end-to-end engagement. We used auto-discovery, migration planning, and execution tools to expedite the engagement timeline and ensure cost savings. At the same time, our approach mitigated migration risks by identifying deeper dependencies and important technical details.

In total, we migrated 35 Google instances to the Azure cloud. The technologies migrated were a mix of Windows, Linux / Ubuntu, and BGP-routed VPN connections. Following rehosting, we also optimized the work and made other improvements utilizing Azure tools and analysis.

Business outcomes

Through taking end-to-end ownership, we successfully delivered the complete migration to Azure in six weeks—two weeks ahead of the original schedule and commitment. More importantly, the hosting operations “run” costs were reduced by more than 10%.

The client realized the run-cost savings they were looking for via the Celsior-Microsoft partnership, and migration costs were minimized through Microsoft partner incentive funding. Not only was Celsior able to help with the migration itself, but we also helped the client to optimize their Azure cloud license spending.

The client was not only able to accomplish the migration within needed time constraints, but they were able to do so in a way that minimized impact to their own staff and enabled them to focus on higher-impact business and IT imperatives.