The story of a Four-Generation Farming Business is a story of twenty-first-century, rural America—four generations tilling and replenishing the soils, weathering both markets and nature, and expanding from regional farmers to become a leading grower, packager, and marketer of potatoes nationwide
Farming Business
Size: 11-50 employees
Location: US – Midwest
The business was currently hosted completely on-prem, operating and managing an aging hardware platform and they wanted a more cost-efficient way to upgrade their server footprint without having to procure physical servers. The farming business also had an existing on-prem server support from a third party vendor who provided on-prem infrastructure hardware and were not happy with them – which only exasperated the situation further.
Utilizing best practices and tools within the Cloud Adoption Framework, Cloud 9 quickly and strategically created a plan to implement migration to the cloud.
Cloud 9 recommended that the company should rehost their entire Windows Server infrastructure (including business apps) on Azure public cloud services. Microsoft Azure provides a stable and secure environment.
Cloud 9 was engaged to meet the following goals:
To achieve the above goals for for the business, Cloud 9 architected, tested and implemented a solution that would:
The Cloud 9 professional team successfully resolved the above problem statement for the business by designing an end-to-end Azure solution based on Microsoft best practices.
“We engaged Cloud 9 to provide end to end support for our migration to the cloud. Cloud 9 worked closely with us as a trusted advisor to meet the tactical challenges of the migration which included architecture, testing, and upgrading all resources in a live production environment. Cloud 9’s approach and design addressed the long term goals of scalability, high availability reliability, and an ongoing cost-effective operational environment. Their ongoing support is timely and reliable.”
Mr Dobbe
Director of IT Services, Bushmans’
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