UBC Successfully Migrates Windows and SQL Servers to Azure

Security gaps threatened the company’s cloud migration, but crisis was averted with services from Lightstream.

Industry:  Trade Union

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters is one of North America’s largest building trade unions, with over a half-million members. The union leads the way in training, educating and representing the next generation of skilled construction professionals.

Business Problem

• Development of Cloud migration plan to Azure.
• Meet security and regulatory compliance requirements for migrating core legacy applications, including Personify running on Windows Server and SQL Server.
• Provide ongoing Azure optimization and management.

Solution

• Lightstream Cloud Foundation Framework Workshop and guided Foundation Build aligned with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
• POC stand up, Security Planning and Design, Network Architecture and Design, App Validation, Automation and Implementation.
• Lightstream Cloud Managed Services for ongoing Azure management and optimization of financial, technical, security and operational aspects of environment.

Business Outcomes:

• Successful workloads migration to Azure.
• Compliant governance and security posture for workload environment enabling UBC to safely deploy applications via Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Ongoing management and optimization including 65% cost savings through RI management and successful networking providing full direct interoperability between on-premise resources, Azure resources via ExpressRoute and AWS resources via Direct Connect.