Case Study
Global tech company saved 30% on infrastructure costs after migrating email security products to the cloud
When this global tech company needed to migrate its email security products from on-premise data centers to the cloud, UST successfully completed the project. The company reduced infrastructure costs by 30% and infrastructure support costs by 60%.
OUR CLIENT
This multinational technology company develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. With operations in more than 80 countries, the company employs approximately 80,000 people and generates $50 billion in annual revenue.
THE CHALLENGE
Migrating cloud email security platform to the cloud
The client approached UST seeking help for the following:
- Cloud-enable its cloud email security (CES) platform
- Migrate the CES to the cloud from on-premise data centers and scale it to support a much larger customer base
- Automate end-to-end processes for end-customer onboarding and infrastructure provisioning
- Implement cloud-based email security solution
- Manage and operationalize the CES platform and cloud infrastructure
THE TRANSFORMATION
Developing and implementing a cloud migration plan with automated user onboarding processes
After UST engaged with the tech company, we:
- Created a CES cloud infrastructure blueprint with a high availability, multi-region architecture and implemented the solution on AWS Cloud
- Completely automated the end-customer onboarding process—from customer sign-up to provisioning of the resources in the cloud and the management of the infrastructure
- Used Python, Shell, and Ansible scripts for end-to-end automation of the infrastructure provisioning
- Provisioned a highly scalable DNS infrastructure in the cloud environment for CES to work
- Implemented cloud security in terms of perimeter security, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessments, and encryption
- Deployed a myriad of management and monitoring tools to ensure extremely high availability
- Provided a dedicated “innovation team” to work with the customer to define and implement a future roadmap for the CES platform
THE IMPACT
Reducing email security infrastructure costs by 30%
The successful cloud migration achieved these impressive results:
- 6.5 million end users—were migrated from seven data centers across the U.S. and Europe to the new cloud infrastructure
- 30% reduction—in infrastructure costs
- 60% reduction—in infrastructure support costs
RESOURCES
https://www.ust.com/en/what-we-do/digital-transformation/managed-security-services