Seamless data center migration for a global bank and wealth management firm
Client Summary
Our client is a world-renowned global bank and asset management group with 9,000 employees across the globe and over $1bn in revenue. Today, the company provides specialized knowledge to assist individuals, businesses or intermediaries representing clients in their growth.
Challenges
The client needed to:
- Upgrade and migrate services across three key data centers
- Eliminate legacy technology debt and associated risks
- Implement new technology that would boost agility, enabling their IT teams to deliver new services to their internal and external customers
They had a fundamental challenge: the technology from the vendor was newly released (Cisco ACI) with little user adoption in the market and the customer’s in-house expertise was limited. The client required external support to design, test, and implement the infrastructure while ensuring zero service disruption.
Solution
HighPoint deployed a team of eight specialists with expertise in Cisco ACI, program governance, technical design, and data analytics. The approach included:
- Creating a Reference Architecture and lab environment
- Conducting automated discovery and service mapping
- Staging and building infrastructure in HighPoint’s facility
- Designing a low-risk migration strategy through joint workshops
- Supporting initial migrations to upskill the client’s operations team and enable them to carry out future migrations
Impact
HighPoint’s structured and collaborative approach enabled a seamless infrastructure upgrade, eliminated technology debt, and ensured business continuity with zero downtime.
Key Achievements
Migration time reduced from 24 to 4 hours
Zero outages during the
entire migration process
Client empowered to complete future migrations independently
