Private Cloud & DR Migration
Cherrylabs designed and implemented a private cloud DC & DR for a leading UAE insurance company, achieving Zero Business RPO, migrating 20+ applications with minimal disruption, and ensuring no outage exceeded 24 hour.
Leading Insurance Company – UAE | Insurance & Financial Services
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Background
The insurance company wanted to move from an on-premises setup to a modern private cloud architecture to improve scalability, security, and resilience. Their vision included:
- Designing a data center (DC) architecture suitable for a private cloud.
- Implementing a disaster recovery (DR) solution with Zero Business RPO.
- Ensuring migration outages did not exceed 24 hours.
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Challenges
- Migrating 20+ applications without extended downtime.
- Guaranteeing Zero Business RPO for mission-critical insurance transactions.
- Limiting downtime for the online insurance processing portal to under 24 hours.
- Designing and building private cloud-based DC & DR infrastructure to meet compliance and operational needs.
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Our Approach
- Redesigned Insurance Processing: Modified core processing flows to achieve Zero Business RPO.
- SDN Infrastructure Design: Created a software-defined network (SDN) tailored for insurance workloads.
- Phased Application Migration: Suggested a partial migration strategy allowing controlled 24-hour outage windows.
- RFP & Vendor Evaluation: Drafted the RFP and evaluated solutions to ensure business, technical, and compliance alignment.
The Results
Optimized Cloud Usage, Stronger Security, Faster Delivery
Zero Business RPO
Enabled Zero Business RPO for mission-critical transactions.
Migrated 20+ apps
Migrated 20+ applications without exceeding the 24-hour outage limit.
Future-Ready Infrastructure
Simplified operations and strengthened ROI with resilient architecture.
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