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The Challenge

DO & CO Aktiengesellschaft (DO & CO) is a gourmet entertainment company that provides airline catering, international event catering and operates restaurants, lounges and hotels. In order to support current and future business requirements in a more flexible and agile way, the enterprise wanted to move its on-premises environment to the cloud. DO & CO sought to:

• Deliver consistent services and provide common, reusable architectures across the group

• Improve business resilience and reduce attack surface vulnerabilities

• Provide responsive services that optimise value and leverage economies of scale

• Build expertise and operational capabilities to sustain and run services in a new delivery model

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The Solution

Eviden, an atos business provided comprehensive data centre migration and support services to DO & CO to facilitate the migration of applications, systems and workloads across the group.

• Leveraged Cloudamize, our high precision analytics and automation software platform to assess the client estate and build a plan for migration

• Leveraged the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) to help offset the costs of migrations and introduce best practices

• Conducted cloud landing zone and governance framework workshops and application deep dives to prepare for migrations

• Designed and enhanced the AWS cloud landing zone, remediating security concerns ahead of migrations

Key AWS technologies included EC2, AWS FSx, S3, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower.

Eviden, an atos business is providing managed services for DO & CO’s AWS cloud environment, which comprises a full suite of infrastructure reliability services: 24/7 service desk, continuous improvement, patch management, health and monitoring, threat and vulnerability, backup and restore. Eviden, an atos business is also providing AWS resale.
 

• The Cloudamize Assessment identified cost reduction opportunity of 69% based on rightsizing and optimisation recommendations

• The MAP funded business case identified a further €1.7M in cost avoidance through exiting the data centres and €120K in cost avoidance through a simplified business continuity and Disaster Recovery architecture

• Eviden, an atos business assessed more than 200 workloads across three data centres. Using a combination of Cloudamize and collaborative workshops, over 70% were identified as being able to be retired or archived, resulting in the remaining 30 applications and 110 servers rehosted and replatformed to AWS

• Although the data centre exit presented time pressures, opportunities to modernise were identified early on in the project and delivered as part of the migration. This included migrating corporate file data from traditional server-based hosting to AWS FSx; a fully managed shared storage service. As a result, management overhead and cost were reduced while also increasing security and performance for DO & CO.

• Through moving to Cloud DO&CO has benefited from reduced risk and improved business continuity through cloud governance and enhanced infrastructure security, availability and reliability.

• Subsequent to the migrations, and with a focus on FinOps best practices, Eviden, an atos business has helped implement AWS Savings Plans for DO & CO, reducing the AWS consumption bill by a further €12k per month.

As DO & CO’s cloud environment matures, the company can take advantage of application modernisation and further landing zone enhancements to achieve even greater flexibility in supporting its transformation initiatives.

An AWS Premier Partner with 700+ certifications and 14 competencies/ specialisations, Eviden, an atos business handled DO & CO’s rapidly changing requirements and scheduled migration waves to accommodate the dynamic business needs. Eviden, an atos business demonstrated its ability to collaborate by working seamlessly with AWS and third party vendors throughout the migration process.

“Eviden, an atos business provided us the reassurance to embark on this major transformation as well as the expertise to reduce our risks and increase our likelihood of success.  Their team was knowledgeable, skilled and methodical. They have been alongside us every step of the way.”

• Nigel Lemmon, Group Head of Digital Technology, DO & CO

“Eviden, an atos business was an excellent partner to help us accelerate our journey to cloud.”

• Nadir Khan, Enterprise Architect, DO & CO

“The migration expertise and deep understanding of AWS services that exist within our Premier Service and migration competency partner Eviden, an atos business is simply outstanding. During the last few months the company has shown that the work has been done on a super professional level. Eviden, an atos business always acted in a very customer-obsessed way, and maximised the AWS funding benefits in the best interests of the customer.”

• Michael Hauser, Senior Account Executive, AWS EMEA Sarl Austrian branch