Cloud Migration|Data Infrastructure
Global Publishing Firm
Streamlining Cloud Migration and Infrastructure Needs
Global Publishing Firm
- Industry: Print and Digital Media
- Size: 10,000+ Employees
- Annual Revenue: £3 Bn
- Locations: 15+ Sites
Solution
- Conduct an infrastructure usage audit
- Develop a global deployment framework
- Identify cloud-ready workloads and optimal cost model
Challenge
- Balancing Local and Global Infrastructure Requirements
- Modernising Storage and Data Protection Infrastructure
- Reducing Data Centre Footprint
- Achieving Smooth Cloud Migration Transition
Results
- Reduced infrastructure costs & planned CAPEX
- Lowered operational costs
- Delivered seamless data migration
- Created a repeatable delivery model for global rollouts
About Global Publishing Firm
This leading global publisher is renowned for its extensive portfolio of influential media properties. With a rich history dating back over a century and operating in 32 markets globally, this entity reaches over a billion consumers worldwide through a variety of channels, including print, digital, video, and social platforms.
Serving a global audience, the publisher creates content for over 100 high-quality websites and applications, in addition to publishing numerous prestigious magazines across Europe, Asia and Central America.
The Challenge
This global publishing firm launched a strategic initiative aimed at enhancing the efficiency of its infrastructure operating model by transitioning from decentralised management across individual markets to a regional support approach. Concurrently, there was an urgent and pressing requirement within the UK market to modernise out-of-date storage and data protection infrastructure.
Nephos faced a considerable challenge: we needed to swiftly address the UK’s critical need to replace obsolete systems with effective solutions, whilst also ensuring this effort aligned with the broader global strategy of migrating services to the cloud and centralising infrastructure operations on a worldwide scale.
Effectively the core objectives of this engagement were to:
- Centralise infrastructure service delivery
- Reduce data centre footprint
- Facilitate a sustainable transition to cloud adoption, and
- Address the specific technical challenges encountered by the UK market.
In striving to balance these aims, Nephos sought not only to meet the immediate requirements of the UK but also to lay the groundwork for a more streamlined and cloud-integrated infrastructure across all its global markets.
The core objectives of this engagement between the global publishing firm and Nephos were to:
- Centralise infrastructure service delivery
- Reduce data centre footprint
- Facilitate a sustainable transition to Cloud adoption, and
- Address the specific technical challenges encountered by the UK market.
The Results
Through our strategic approach, we delivered remarkable outcomes, fundamentally transforming this global publishing firm’s infrastructure and financial landscape:
- Reduced on-premises infrastructure costs and space by over 50%.
- Cut planned CAPEX for on-premises equipment by 42%.
- Lowered operational costs by 54%, boosting efficiency.
- Migrated 50% of UK workloads to AWS, enhancing flexibility.
- Transitioned DR operations to AWS, improving business continuity.
Beyond these tangible benefits, the strategy devised by Nephos perfectly aligned with their target operating model. It offered a nuanced blend of regional and centralised management options, providing a robust framework for future cloud migrations and operational scalability.
The hybrid nature of the final solution underscores the strategic advantage of partnering with an organisation adept at integrating public cloud solutions with next-generation datacentre infrastructure, ensuring a seamless, agile and cost-effective digital transformation.
