Project Scope
Upgrade the Data Center Security Solution of a leading mobile operator in Africa to increase the capacity, throughput, efficiency and stability of the mission critical applications.
Customer Overview
A leading mobile operator in the African market with 70 branches and more than 2000 employees. The customer infrastructure is built as per state-of-the-art network, security and unified communications multi vendor solutions to serve the subscribers of the mobile services.
Business Challenges
- Migrate the data center security solution to the recommended architecture.
- Concert a very huge bulk of old configuration to match the syntax of the new products.
- Conduct the data center migration to the new architecture with minimum service interruption.
- Develop and execute comprehensive tests to avoid roll back scenarios.
- Improve the stability and efficiency metrics of the data center.
How We Helped
In this sensitive project, our consultants utilized their extensive technical and business experience to:
- Review the design and configuration of the currently deployed data center security solution.
- Develop a Conversion Tool to convert and optimize around 45,000 configuration command lines from the syntax of the old security products to the syntax of the new products.
- Develop a detailed migration plan.
- Execute the data center migration in 4 Maintenance Windows with minimum service interruption.
Benefits for Business
We assisted the customer to gain the following benefits:
- Increase the availability, reliability, scalability and security of the data center.
- Conduct the data center migration with less than 60% of the planned service outage.
- Achieve optimum utilization for the hardware resources.
- Increase the ROI by providing an Infrastructure that can provide faster processing for the business applications.