To address their needs, Newser was considering moving their systems to the Microsoft Cloud, but needed some insight and direction. Newser engaged Cloud 9 Infosystems to assess, plan and migrate their systems to Microsoft Azure. Cloud 9 completed an assessment of the Newser service and worked closely with Newser’s Chief Technology Officer to lay out a tactical approach for addressing the immediate needs, and develop a longer term Platform as a Service (PaaS) strategy.
The tactical effort did not change the server architecture. Instead, the servers were setup in the cloud as virtual machines on a virtual network in Microsoft Azure. This “lift and shift” approach to migrate systems as-is to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution helped accelerate the effort.
Within six weeks, Newser was running their development, test and production environments entirely on Microsoft Azure. A transition to the Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) followed shortly, and after a total of eight weeks, Newser was beginning to realize the monthly operational cost benefits of cloud computing. In addition to the cost savings, Newser can now focus their IT resources on developing new service capabilities and architecture changes.