Avanade AVS Offering
Sales Guide - Internal

Credentials

March 2022

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1Customer Success Story

Large Australian Insurer
FOCUS PLAY
Hybrid Cloud –AVSINDUSTRY
Insurance

REGION
Australia

AVS Migration unlocks the value of the cloud to migrate at risk applications
Avanade helped a large Australian Insurance Company and Bank to migrate end of life workloads to the Azure
VMware Solution

Challenges

The Solution

Outcome

The client was looking for a partner toassist the in-house team, to architect
and implement a new hosting solution.
This hosting solution would help theclient move End of Life (EOL) Win2008& SQL2008 workloads to a new cloudenvironment Azure VMware Solution(AVS) platform.

The Avanade team conducted design
workshops to understand the IT
environment and built the Azure
Landing Zone enabling a seamlessintegration with Azure VMware
solution.

• The platform implemented
enabled to continue critical
updates for end-of-life servers,
while providing fullcompatibility with VMWaretools.

The client wanted to leverage the AVS
for this migration and needed a partnerwith expertise in Microsoft Azure andVMware.

Moreover, the security and regulatorycompliance were a high priority forthe client. We were able to embedclient’s security requirements in thesolution with full compliance toindustry regulations and successfully
migrated approximately 300
workloads to the platform.

• Migrating the workloads tocloud helped achieve scale,automation, fast provisioning
for VMware workloads on Azure
infrastructure and low-latency
connectivity to Azure ecosystem• The client is able to leverage
existing VMware investments,
skills, and tools, including
VMware vSphere, vSAN, vCenter,
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2Customer Success Story

A Digital Solutions Company
FOCUS PLAY
Hybrid Cloud –AVSINDUSTRY
Software and Technology

REGION
United States

AVS migration helps gain control in the cloud by migrating critical applications
Avanade helped this leading digital solutions company migrate IaaS Console to manage and deploy VMs in thecloud

Challenges

The Solution

Outcome

The client asked Avanade to migrate“TS Iaas Console” acting as a Private
Cloud manager as well as the 2400
VM’s it manages to the Azure VMware
Solution. (AVS)The Avanade team conducted designworkshops to develop a workloadmigration plan. The solution leveraged
VMware HCX for an acceleratedmigration.

• 2400+ VMs were migrated toAzure VMware solution (AVS)The migrate took 9 months which
included:• Setup of cloud landing zone AVSand tools• Wave planning• The IaaS Console wassuccessfully migrated to Azureand the client is now able todeploy and manage the2400VMs in AVS• The client was successfully able
to exit datacenter, retain onprem services and establish anAzure VMware cloudenvironment• Migration and testing©2022 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Customer Success Story

Leading European Retail Company
AVS Migration unlocks the value of the cloud
FOCUS PLAY
Hybrid Cloud –AVS

Challenges

The Solution

OutcomeRetailThe client asked Avanade to migrate
3TB of VMs workloads to cloud.

REGION

However due to parent company
regulations, exiting datacenter andmoving to cloud was complicated andtime consuming.

The Avanade team worked closelywith the client to develop a migration
roadmap and offer a solution tomigrate to Azure VMware Solution.
(AVS)• The platform implemented
enabled greater control over thecloud environment andinfrastructure.

INDUSTRYEurope

The client was also facing storage
challenges due to limited on-prem
infrastructure and needed scalability
and agility offered by cloud.

A PaaS solution was developed with adetailed approach for different types
of workloads based on volume of 3TB
of VM workloads.

• More than 3TB of VM workloads
were migrated via Azure
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