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The challenge
DB Systel UK approached Node4 in 2017 when the company was given 12 months to migrate from its on-premises data
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CENTRE OUTAGE OR ISSUE WITH NODE4 , SO IT ’ S ONE LESS WORRY FOR ME TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT . centre . The pressure was on because if DB Systel UK remained in the data centre with its 800 + servers , it would be hit with extremely high single occupancy service charges .
At the time , DB Systel UK only provided managed services to other DB Group companies and some of these organisations saw the changes at the data centre as an opportunity to move from DB Systel UK ’ s private infrastructure to public cloud – using AWS and other providers .
“ We had to find a suitable colocation partner for those internal customers that wanted to carry on using our private infrastructure services , but that was only part of the story ,” said Darren Unwin , IS Operations Director at DB Systel UK .
“ We still had to provide support for those businesses wanting to use a public cloud architecture . The DB Group is understandably very strict when it comes to security . We couldn ’ t just switch it to regular public cloud providers with a direct feed from the Internet . The connection would still need to pass through our internal security architecture – including our firewall and various perimeter protections . This meant we needed an IT partner that could help us assemble and manage a highly complex IT infrastructure – and integrate it with our existing security protocols .”
The solution
After successfully winning the contract , Node4 began the data centre migration
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