Our client, a statewide non-profit organization, promotes the health and well-being of all Louisianans. Founded in 1997, the organization employs more than 100 workers throughout the state in all nine Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) regions.
The Challenge
The client operates on an aging technology infrastructure with on-premises databases and servers that are becoming increasingly costly and unmanageable. The client wants to modernize its operations with an agile, secure, reliable, and scalable technology architecture to meet its customers’ evolving needs. As a non-profit, the client must rein in operational spending and increase efficiency and speed.
The Solution
The client onboarded Persistent to provide advisory services, assess its current infrastructure, and conceptualize a target-state cloud architecture to modernize its legacy technology stack. Within scope were 170 servers, 54 application servers, and 5 database servers. Our experts recommended migrating the on-premises data centers and servers to AWS to curb infrastructure management costs and on-ground headcount costs.
We worked with the client to identify business requirements and conducted workshops to understand current gaps in its resource utilization capabilities. We discovered that 27% of its on-premises servers were used less than 20% of the time, and 64% had less than 20% CPU utilization. These underutilized resources led to cost overheads and high manual efforts to manage.
For Windows workloads, we projected costs for the client utilizing the AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment framework (OLA), which offers a detailed assessment of on-premises infrastructure and licenses for a cost-effective setup. Our AWS experts found the projected on-cloud cost to be five times lower for cloud hosted servers ($250,000 to $50,000) and ten times lower for storage ($160,000 to $16,000) without factoring in the licensing costs.
The proposed AWS infrastructure will be auto-managed, ensuring resources are optimally provisioned and utilized. This will eliminate the client’s manual effort to manage its on-premises infrastructure
The Outcome
By moving on-premises data centers, servers, and applications to AWS, the client will potentially:
- Save 5x the server spend and 10x the storage spends, reducing overall TCO by 30%.
- Consolidate five database servers into one and ensure standardization.
- Eliminate manual resource provisioning and improve resource utilization.
- Improve developer productivity by 29%.
- Accelerate go-to-market for new features by 43%.
- Build operational resilience with a 69% reduction in unplanned downtime and 50% reduction in monthly critical incidents.
- Create better health outcomes, programs, outreach, and communication.
