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Education Leader Accelerates Cloud Transformation with Concierto Migrate: 18-Week Assessment & Migration Program
Executive Summary
This leading higher education institution transformed their IT infrastructure using Trianz Concierto Migrate, achieving a comprehensive assessment and pilot migration program. Facing the challenge of migrating a complex environment with 820 VMs and 504 DR servers, they needed an enterprise-grade solution that could deliver strategic insights and automated migration capabilities.
Concierto's AI-powered automation and hyper-intelligent workflows enabled them to complete a thorough assessment, establish cloud foundations, and execute a pilot migration of 410 VMs while achieving significant operational improvements. The transformation positioned them for continued cloud adoption and modernization.
Key Transformation Results:
- Comprehensive Assessment: Complete discovery and analysis of IT landscape using Concierto.cloud platform
- Accelerated Timeline: 18-week end-to-end program from assessment through pilot migration
- Pilot Migration Success: Migration of 410 VMs to AWS using rehosting strategy
- Foundation Established: Implemented landing zone, security controls, and governance framework
- Strategic Roadmap: Detailed migration plan with 7Rs framework and wave planning
Client Overview
Industry:
Higher Education
Organization Size:
Large Enterprise
Transformation Focus:
Cloud Migration | Assessment & Mobilization | Infrastructure Modernization
Concierto Platform:
Migrate | Insights & AI
Timeline:
18-week accelerated implementation
The Business Challenge
This enterprise organization faced the need to modernize their IT infrastructure comprising 820 VMs and 504 DR servers. Their existing technology landscape made traditional cloud migration approaches challenging and required comprehensive assessment capabilities.
The complexity of their environment created the need for detailed application and component dependency mapping. The organization's technical teams were facing operational constraints with their current infrastructure.
Business pressures demanded rapid transformation capabilities and strategic planning. Leadership needed a solution that could provide comprehensive discovery, risk assessment, and automated migration capabilities.
Governance and compliance requirements were critical for this regulated education environment. The organization required a platform that could ensure security controls, compliance documentation, and disaster recovery planning throughout the transformation.
The Concierto Solution
AI-Powered Enterprise Transformation Platform
Concierto Migrate delivered the breakthrough capabilities this organization needed through its unique combination of artificial intelligence, hyper-automation, and enterprise-grade reliability. Unlike traditional migration tools that require extensive customization and manual processes, Concierto's SaaS-based platform provided immediate value through zero-code, workflow-driven automation.
Intelligent Discovery and Assessment
Capabilities automatically mapped the organization's entire application portfolio of 820 VMs and 504 DR servers, identifying dependencies, optimization opportunities, and transformation pathways. Concierto's AI-powered assessment engine provided strategic insights including VM-level migration strategy using the 7Rs framework, application and component dependency mapping, and workload classification and prioritization that informed both technical and business decisions throughout the transformation.
Hyper-Automated Migration Orchestration
Eliminated the manual bottlenecks that typically consume significant time in enterprise transformations. The platform's intelligent workflows automated complex migration scenarios, validation processes, and optimization configurations while maintaining complete visibility and control for technical teams during the pilot migration of 410 VMs.
Multi-Cloud Optimization Engine
Ensured that workload placement decisions were based on performance, cost, and compliance requirements. The organization could leverage AWS strategically, with Concierto managing the complexity through a unified interface.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance
Framework provided built-in governance controls, audit trails, and risk management protocols. The platform's capabilities ensured that all transformation activities met regulatory requirements for the education sector automatically, including landing zone implementation and security configurations.
Real-Time Analytics and Optimization
Delivered continuous insights through detailed cost and maintenance reports, TCO analysis, and resource right-sizing recommendations, enabling data-driven decisions throughout the migration process.
Implementation Excellence
Phase 1: Assessment Phase (6 weeks)
Concierto's automated discovery engine conducted a comprehensive analysis of the organization's existing infrastructure, performing IT landscape analysis at the VM level, OS and environment analysis, application-server and component dependency mapping, and business landscape and application criticality analysis. The platform's AI-powered assessment provided strategic insights including detailed migration roadmap and timeline, move group and migration wave planning, and re-platforming and modernization recommendations for COTS and legacy technologies. The assessment phase delivered a comprehensive Discovery & R Strategy Report and Cost & Maintenance Report with TCO analysis and licensing optimization recommendations.
Phase 2: Mobilize Phase (6 weeks)
Concierto orchestrated the establishment of foundational services through assessment and mitigation of gaps in existing foundational services, implementation of functional landing zone with configured network and security settings, and comprehensive disaster recovery design. The platform's capabilities delivered Migration Readiness Report with identified prerequisites and dependencies, Cloud Governance, Security & Compliance Report with security controls documentation, and Innovation, Optimization & Strategy Report outlining opportunities for modernization.
Phase 3: Pilot Migration (6 weeks)
Post-assessment, the platform executed pilot migration of 410 VMs to AWS using rehosting strategy. Concierto's intelligent validation and testing capabilities provided post-migration validation, operational performance reporting, and 2 weeks of hypercare support documentation ensuring that every migrated workload met performance expectations.
Transformation Results & Business Impact
Operational Excellence Achieved
The organization's transformation with Concierto delivered comprehensive assessment insights and successful pilot migration execution, demonstrating the platform's ability to drive exceptional business value through intelligent automation and AI-powered optimization.
- Assessment Deliverables: VM-level migration strategy using 7Rs framework, complete dependency mapping, workload classification, and detailed migration roadmap
- Foundation Implementation: Functional landing zone, configured security settings, and governance framework established
- Pilot Migration Success: 410 VMs migrated to AWS with validation and hypercare support
- Cost Optimization: TCO analysis, licensing optimization recommendations, and resource right-sizing guidance delivered
- Strategic Planning: Migration wave planning, move group prioritization, and modernization roadmap established
Strategic Business Impact
- Transformation Roadmap: Comprehensive 18-week program established foundation for continued cloud adoption
- Risk Mitigation: Thorough assessment identified dependencies and prerequisites before large-scale migration
- Governance Framework: Security, compliance, and operational controls implemented for ongoing cloud operations
- Knowledge Transfer: Technical teams equipped with migration documentation and operational best practices
Platform Technology Excellence
Concierto Migrate Architecture:
- Cloud Platforms: AWS migration with landing zone implementation
- Automation Engine: Zero-code, workflow-driven intelligent automation
- AI/ML Capabilities: Predictive optimization and continuous learning algorithms for assessment and migration planning
- Integration Hub: Enterprise-grade APIs and connector ecosystem
- Compliance Framework: ITIL compliant, SAS 70 & CSA Star certified
- Security Architecture: Enterprise-grade governance and audit capabilities
- Assessment Tools: Concierto.cloud proprietary platform for discovery and analysis
Key Differentiators
- SaaS Delivery Model: Immediate value without infrastructure overhead
- Hyper-Automated Workflows: Eliminates manual processes and human error
- AI-Powered Optimization: Continuous improvement and cost optimization insights
- Comprehensive Assessment: VM-level discovery with 7Rs strategy framework
- Enterprise Reliability: Proven at scale across 100+ concurrent transformations globally
Future Transformation Roadmap
Building on their assessment and pilot migration success, the organization is now positioned to leverage Concierto's advanced capabilities for full-scale migration of remaining workloads and continued modernization initiatives.
- Full Migration: Structured wave-based migration of complete infrastructure portfolio
- Ongoing Optimization: Continuous cost and performance optimization through Concierto insights
- Ongoing Partnership: Continued collaboration with Trianz for managed optimization services and transformation support
Why Leading Enterprises Choose Concierto
This transformation success demonstrates why organizations across industries select Concierto for their most critical cloud initiatives. The platform's unique combination of AI-powered intelligence, enterprise-scale reliability, and zero-code simplicity delivers results that traditional approaches cannot match.
Concierto's SaaS-based delivery model, hyper-automated workflows, and comprehensive assessment capabilities provide the agility and efficiency that modern enterprises require while maintaining the security and compliance standards that regulated industries demand.
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