Published on : Saturday, November 17, 2018
“We already had some experience with Azure as our digital marketing team uses Azure already for Sitecore to manage our public and private websites, and there are the applications developed by Satalyst for the cycle tours,” SATC IT operations officer Sam Mountstephen said.
“Prior to moving we had two physical hosts with about 16 or 17 virtual machines. We had to do quite a bit of work to get to 12 VMs and virtualise SQL, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Applications Server, Microsoft Systems Server and Config Manager.”
Mountstephen stated that the migration was completed with zero data loss or downtime, where despite the shutdown of the head office staff were successful in remotely accessing work “as though nothing had happened”.
IT manager Michelle Stokes added that it also gave the commission the leeway to refresh and combine its disparate systems and platforms used across the state.
Stokes said that various events managed by the commission were backed by six different systems which regularly left staff confused.
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