Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine October 2018 | Page 155

TECHNOLOGY
155 of bringing together IaaS , PaaS , SaaS and on-premise solutions . We needed a fast network at each regional office , as the existing links would not support our cloud-first aspirations . We needed a set of core technology services including identity management , to run and support this infrastructure and most importantly , we need an infrastructure that could support future convergence of OT and IT .”
After careful consideration Turnbull decided a Microsoft stack was optimal in his quest to move the infrastructure to a service model , located in the Cloud . “ We have built a virtual data centre capability in Azure and challenged ourselves to have 80 % of our workload running in the cloud by 2020 . We moved our provisioning process to Azure Resource Manager ( enabling infrastructure-as-code ) and rebuilt our identity and access management capability using Azure Active Directory ( AAD ). This was a game changer because it provided a way to bring together our
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