Server Migration
ECOWAS Seamless Migration to Azure Cloud with Wragby Solutions
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) office in Nigeria, embarked on a transformative journey to the cloud by partnering with Wragby. This collaboration helped modernize ECOWAS’ IT operations, ensuring scalability, enhanced security, and improved efficiency.
Through meticulous planning and execution, the migration not only resolved ECOWAS’s immediate infrastructure limitations but also set the foundation for future growth and innovation. This customer story showcases the widespread benefits reaped by ECOWAS through this migration initiative, highlighting the significant improvements in performance, cost savings, and operational agility.
Business Challenges
ECOWAS faced numerous challenges with its legacy on-premises infrastructure, including limited scalability and flexibility inhibiting organizational growth, High operational costs associated with hardware maintenance and upgrades, Security vulnerabilities due to outdated software and limited disaster recovery capabilities and Inefficient resource utilization leading to sub optimal performance.
The Solution deployed
Recognizing the need for a robust cloud solution, ECOWAS partnered with Wragby Business Solutions and Technologies to migrate its infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Leveraging Azure’s comprehensive suite of services and Wragby’s expertise, ECOWAS aimed to achieve scalability, security, and agility in its IT operations. The decision to migrate Red hat Linux VMs to Azure highlighted the flexibility and compatibility of the platform with diverse workloads. The migration process was meticulously planned and executed by Wragby
We conducted a thorough assessment of ECOWAS’s existing infrastructure to identify dependencies and migration prerequisites after which a detailed migration plan was developed, outlining timelines, resource allocation, and risk mitigation strategies. We utilized Azure Site Recovery and Azure Migrate services to seamlessly migrate VMs to Azure, ensuring minimal downtime. A Rigorous test was conducted post-migration to validate functionality, performance, and data integrity.
Lastly, we worked closely with the ECOWAS team to optimize Azure resources, ensuring cost-efficiency and performance optimization. In total, 44 VMs and 15 Red hat Linux VMs were Migrated successfully to Azure.
The Result
The migration to Azure, facilitated by Wragby Business Solutions and Technologies, delivered significant benefits which included the ability to scale resources dynamically to meet fluctuating demands, reduced operational costs through the elimination of on-premises hardware maintenance and upgrades, enhanced security posture with Azure’s advanced threat protection and encryption capabilities, improved system uptime and reliability, ensuring business continuity for ECOWAS operations, streamlined management and monitoring, resulting in increased IT efficiency and productivity.
Post-migration, ECOWAS experienced tangible results from reduction in infrastructure maintenance costs to over 50 percent improvement in system uptime and reliability, increase in overall IT efficiency and enhanced user satisfaction due to improved performance and responsiveness.
The Future
The migration journey provided valuable insights for both ECOWAS and Wragby Business Solutions and Technologies. The importance of collaboration and communication throughout the migration process, the value of continuous monitoring and optimization to maximize ROI and the significance of training and upskilling IT staff to effectively manage cloud resources were all key lessons learnt in the project.
As an Azure managed service provider, Wragby continues to support and implement these innovative solutions to customers like ECOWAS and more across all business verticals.
