Zonal Resilience for Critical Government Services
Government organisation, UAE
More than 150 Nutanix workloads moved to a secure, zone-resilient Azure environment in the UAE without disrupting critical government services.
- Nutanix workloads migrated to Azure
- 150+Nutanix workloads migrated to Azure
- Zonal disaster recovery with tested failover and failback
- Zone-resilientZonal disaster recovery with tested failover and failback
The challenge
What was going wrong
A UAE government organisation operated more than 150 workloads on an on-premises Nutanix platform and required migration to Azure while maintaining local data-residency requirements and implementing zonal disaster recovery — modernising infrastructure without disrupting critical government services, against strict security controls, application dependencies, legacy systems and government governance standards.
Our approach
What we built
- 01
Classified the workload estate by criticality, performance, dependencies, compatibility, recovery requirements, migration method and modernisation potential.
- 02
Designed a target Azure architecture incorporating a landing zone, hub-and-spoke networking, Availability Zones, security appliances, identity integration, monitoring, backup, Azure Site Recovery, policy controls and centralised logging.
- 03
Transitioned workloads through discovery, replication, test migration, application validation, production cutover, post-migration testing and hypercare.
- 04
Designed zonal disaster recovery with zone-aware workload placement, replication, failover orchestration, recovery sequencing, DR runbooks, simulation exercises and failback procedures.
The outcome
What changed
- Reduced on-premises platform dependency and improved availability.
- Stronger disaster recovery and better infrastructure governance.
- Enhanced security visibility and more consistent backup and monitoring.
- Increased capacity flexibility and improved readiness for future digital services.
