A SaaS (Software as a Service) company anticipated dramatic business growth and needed to scale quickly. They hosted their applications in a local data center, including Windows Services, a website with a blog, and a very large database that hindered their ability to scale.
The ideal solution was to migrate to the cloud. After assessing their application, we began transitioning parts of it to Microsoft Azure, establishing a VPN connection between the data center and the cloud. We converted the Windows Services to Microsoft Azure Web Jobs and the website to a Microsoft Azure App Service. We then built a Microsoft Azure SQL instance and created dedicated databases for different applications instead of maintaining one large data warehouse.
We started feeding the old data warehouse in the data center with information generated through the cloud applications, allowing legacy systems to stay online during the migration. By migrating one system at a time, we eventually transitioned the entire system to the cloud. Additionally, by purchasing reserved cloud instances through Microsoft Azure, we reduced their overall hosting budget by 20%.
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