- Decommissioned Legacy Systems: Unsupported servers were retired, eliminating technical debt, reducing support and licensing costs, and minimizing security risk.
- Cost Savings: Resource consolidation and right-sizing in Azure led to an estimated 15–20% cost optimization.
- Automation-Driven Efficiency: Adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automated DevOps pipelines reduced operational effort by up to 40% and halved environment provisioning time.
Client
The client is a technology company offering innovative, user-friendly software to healthcare organizations across the United States, including emergency services, hospitals, and related agencies. Their portfolio includes electronic health records, data exchange for healthcare interoperability, and other workflow management tools.
Challenge
The client faced technical and operational challenges due to legacy infrastructure, fragmented deployment processes, and limited scalability.
Key challenges included:
- Operational Complexity: Legacy build and release workflows, based on outdated platforms, were difficult to maintain and troubleshoot, leading to increased support costs.
- Disaster Recovery Limitations: Manual, fragmented disaster recovery processes resulted in extended recovery times and greater risk to service continuity.
- Fragmented Security Landscape: Operating across multiple platforms led to inconsistent security governance, increasing management complexity.
- Future Readiness Concerns: The lack of a unified cloud environment delayed the adoption of new technologies and services.
The client needed a streamlined, secure, and future-ready cloud platform to modernize their healthcare infrastructure.
Solution
DataArt partnered with the client on strategic cloud migration initiatives focused on automation, security, and best practices.
Migration & Modernization: The client’s deployment and configuration processes, along with several core workloads and legacy applications, were migrated from on-premises and older cloud environments to Microsoft Azure landing zones.
- Legacy CI/CD flows were replaced by automated and reusable Azure DevOps pipelines using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and YAML templates.
- Azure Key Vault was adopted for secure management of secrets, and Azure Backup and Azure Monitor were enabled to improve reliability and observability.
Execution: Several operational databases and web applications were rehosted to Azure Virtual Machines in a phased migration to minimize downtime.
- Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery enabled orchestrated migration and resilient disaster recovery processes.
- A roadmap was documented for future modernization, including potential integration with native Azure platform services.
Deployment Automation: Infrastructure as Code and Azure DevOps pipelines assured reliable, repeatable deployments across environments.
Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Alignment
Migrations were planned and implemented according to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, covering design, governance, operations, and management.
Benefits realized:
Key Advantages & Outcomes
Technology
Conclusion
By strategically migrating its core healthcare workloads and critical applications to Microsoft Azure, the client successfully overcame legacy infrastructure challenges and operational limitations. This resulted in a secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environment that reduced costs, streamlined governance, and improved operational efficiency.
