How we enhanced our technology which helped the organization work remote during lockdown

At WeP, we have our in-house Datacenter which hosts our mission-critical applications and providing the necessary infra power to run our organization. I have a well-trained team who is good in handling the server and network landscape.

When you manage a very hybrid infrastructure (legacy to state of art), you are bound to learn and adapt to many different skills that venture far beyond just "keeping the light on mode".  You have to learn to pick the right hardware, negotiate and strike deals with different providers and keeping in mind that solution selected stay cost efficient and solves the right business problem. 

When you manage an on-premises data center, it becomes your responsibility to upgrade/update everything. This can mean costly on-prim hardware to handle the requirements of newly hosted software’s or new technology implementations.

“All good things must come to an end” quoted by Mr. Geoffrey Chaucer, applies to our software’s and hardware too.  Even for a normal progression of a growing business, we start to face few difficulties like server CPU utilization going high, bandwidth choking and unscheduled network downtime. When HW/software’s announce end-of-life, we can decommission old license and hardware, now was the time to think on best possible solution.

As our organization is growing, we will have to think of a solution which is agile, scaleable and reliable. We planned to migrate our critical on prem data center to cloud.  We planned a hybrid architecture, which helped us use some of our on-prem servers and also critical application server to cloud. By moving to cloud we found that our high traffic site did not go through a downtime.  As needs increase, its easy to scale up or scale down remotely. In a nutshell, If you have connectivity, you can be at work from anywhere.

Since the data is stored in the cloud, you can access it no matter where you are.  Using cloud applications like O365 has helped the organisation to work anywhere, easy collaboration. We have been effectively collaborating with employees and customer using Microsoft teams. We have been conducting webinars to train employees which would help their skills. 

My mentor always say's, don’t worry on spending on IT, you will reap the benefits soon.  Today I release the benefit of implementing best in class technology.

Content by:- 

Sunitha A

General Manager – Mgmt Support

WeP Solutions Ltd.

Dt. 07-05-2020