Global Infrastructure Transformation for a Shipping Enterprise
Shipping enterprise headquartered in Monaco
More than 450 workloads moved to Azure West Europe with disaster recovery engineered from day one, unifying a geographically fragmented global infrastructure.
- Workloads migrated to Azure West Europe
- 450+Workloads migrated to Azure West Europe
- Infrastructure consolidated from multiple countries into one platform
- Multi-geographyInfrastructure consolidated from multiple countries into one platform
The challenge
What was going wrong
A shipping giant headquartered in Monaco operated a multi-geography on-premises infrastructure supporting international business operations, and required the migration of more than 450 workloads to Microsoft Azure West Europe together with a resilient disaster recovery capability. The environment spanned multiple countries, datacentres and business operations, with complex network connectivity, legacy workloads, data-transfer constraints, limited migration windows and regulatory and residency considerations.
Our approach
What we built
- 01
Assessed more than 450 workloads for rehosting, replatforming, modernisation, retirement or consolidation.
- 02
Designed a secure Azure landing zone with subscription and management-group structure, identity integration, network architecture, firewall controls, role-based access, policy governance and cost management.
- 03
Executed a wave-based migration — application grouping, dependency validation, replication, pilot migration, cutover planning, business validation, production transition and hypercare.
- 04
Incorporated disaster recovery through workload criticality classification, defined RTOs and RPOs, Azure Site Recovery, backup architecture, network failover, recovery runbooks, testing and failback planning.
The outcome
What changed
- Consolidation of multi-geography infrastructure and improved central visibility.
- Reduced datacentre dependency and enhanced scalability.
- Stronger disaster recovery and improved security governance.
- Better workload monitoring, simplified operational management and a platform for future application modernisation.
