Private Cloud

The Challenge

The client was grappling with several IT infrastructure challenges:

• Rising costs: Increases in energy bills, maintenance expenses, and colocation service fees were steadily driving up monthly operational charges, eroding overall financial efficiency.
• Cloud migration hurdles: While the firm was eager to migrate to the cloud, concerns around unpredictable billing, hidden charges, and lack of pricing transparency made public cloud providers less appealing.
• Ageing infrastructure: Their environment was partially end-of-life (EoL), leading to  an increased urgency managing risk and maintenance overhead.
• Business expansion: The client was looking to grow through acquisitions and needed flexible, yet standardised, infrastructure that would offer a cookie cutter approach to company expansion

Without addressing these issues, the firm risked continued cost escalation, increased system downtime, and limited scalability - hampering business growth and agility.

Our Solution

To meet the client’s needs, we designed a solution that provided the benefits of both VCloud and PVDC under a single IaaS offering. PVDC combines cloud-managed service benefits with dedicated infrastructure control, offering secure data handling, scalable performance, and flexible CapEx or OpEx options. Key elements included:

• Private cloud architecture: Reviewing multiple cloud architectures and landing on the ITPS Private cloud solution, both for technical performance and sound economic reasons
• Flexibility: The capability of being able to increase via node or use additional resource from our ‘FlexCloud’ Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. This allowed the client to have the ability to choose between CapEx and OpEx options when the requirement came to grow their estate.
• Network and security hosting: Hosted their current firewalls, SD-WAN, and other networking assets within our platform.
• Disaster recovery & geo-redundancy: Deployed services in a secondary region to ensure resilience.
• Flexible pricing models: Offered fixed-price billing with no hidden fees, either as a CapEx or flexible OpEx model.

The Outcome

The transformation delivered outstanding results:

• Cost savings: The ITPS solution was 75% less expensive compared to a direct public cloud migration.
• Minimal downtime: Migration was completed over a single weekend, starting Friday and concluding Sunday evening. By Monday morning, all services were tested and fully operational.
• Modernised infrastructure: Upgraded and renewed hardware during the migration process and transitioned from Hyper-V to our secure Private Cloud platform.
• Predictable billing: The client now benefits from clear, upfront pricing—aligned to their financial strategy with no surprises.