Client:
Victorian Institute of Teaching
Industry:
Education
Solution:
Azure Data Protection
Overview
The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) is an independent statutory authority for the teaching profession, whose primary function is to regulate members of the teaching profession. The VIT was established by the Victorian Institute of Teaching Act 2001 on 18 December 2002.
VIT needed to eliminate the risk and complexity involved in running a disaster recovery site for their critical applications and required a simplified testing and reporting for compliance that still adhered to audit compliance requirements. VIT also wanted to Improve on the RPO that they currently offer as a business for disaster recovery. VIT engaged Xello to leverage the Cloud to improve on their disaster recovery solution.
By engaging Xello, VIT leveraged Azure Site Recovery (ASR) which included migrating their data from their on-premise, secondary datacentre to the cloud, thus addressing their requirement to improve DR, and in so doing, helped them adopt Cloud. Xello took a step-by-step approach for this engagement and started with an assessment of the existing environment to determine if there were any constraints and identify the gaps before configuring Windows Azure Tenancy for VIT.
The Challenge
VIT had a secondary data centre and legacy processes that related to failover of key services to invoke disaster recovery. There was some uncertainty around this which had the impact to not meet RPO and RTO set by VIT.
The Solution
Xello leveraged Microsoft Operations Management Suite and its BCDR technology to protect on-premise workloads on VMWare and replicating those to the Azure Cloud. This reduced the RPO/RTOs from days to minutes.
The Outcome
VIT partnered with Xello’s experienced team and successfully migrated and decommissioned VITs secondary data centres, improved their recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) and migrated their key workloads to the Azure Cloud, as well as reduced the risk within the overall business environment.
While VIT is still progressing its overall cloud journey, they now have a clearer picture of how Microsoft Azure’s services can align and benefit with their long-term digital transformation objectives.
