RISO Transforms IT by Migrating Their Datacenter to the Cloud

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with Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Block Store for scalable cloud computing and storage.

• Integration of the in-house Active Directory with Salesforce via the Ping Identify virtual appliance in AWS

To ensure a successful migration, Apps Associates managed this complex project and provided the following services:

• Cloud assessment and planning

• Cloud architecture design

• Cloud enablement – Proof of Concept and validation

• Cloud Deployment – Cloud migration for all applications

• Project Management

• 24x7 managed services for production operations

Apps Associates designed and built the network architecture for RISO on AWS enabling access from their five separate locations. We built a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) based site to site Virtual Private Network (VPN) between AWS and RISO’s warehouses and corporate headquarters.

Cutting Costs and Time to MarketRISO, a global manufacturer of printers and digital copiers, wanted to focus on their core business, selling and maintaining cost effective digital printing solutions. To achieve this they needed to reduce costs and improve IT agility.

RISO had several challenges with their existing IT environment:

• Their hardware (network and servers etc.) was rapidly approaching its end of life

• They needed to reduce operational expenses including hardware maintenance costs

• They had to manage IT Infrastructure across multiple locations

• They had multiple vendors and support contracts across hardware, software, IT infrastructure and business applications, resulting in a significant management overhead

• Legacy applications that had specific operating system requirements

Migration to the Cloud To address these issues, Apps Associates helped RISO to migrate their data center to the Amazon Web Services platform. The project included:

• A complete study of IT infrastructure & costs, including recommendations and a detailed plan, for migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• A Proof of Concept and validation, for Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (EBS) and OBIEE, as well as backup operations running in the cloud

• Migration of the complete in-house infrastructure and applications including SQL Server, Oracle EBS, OBIEE and Active Directory Domain controllers, as well as supporting applications such as Track-it, La Crosse, Cast Iron, Ping, Optio, and related tools

• Migration from Tivoli tape backups to Amazon’s S3 backups using Zmanda and Amazon Glacier

• Deployment of a Virtual Private Cloud on Amazon Web Services,

Results and BenefitsApps Associates designed a cost effective cloud platform, and with a rapid 6 month deployment we enabled RISO to quickly realize cost savings and maximize their return on investment.

"We knew that Apps Associates were Oracle experts but they also proved to be cloud experts too, enabling a complete infrastructure and application migration to the public cloud"

Alex OlshanCFO and Vice President - RISO, Inc.

Apps Associates managed the switchover to the AWS cloud to minimize down time and ensure business continuity for all RISO’s core systems. They reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business.

"Apps Associates understood that our objectives were to reduce costs and enable IT scalability and they helped us achieve those goals by rapidly migrating our entire data center to the cloud"

Christopher GattoniManager, I.T. Infrastructure and Support - RISO, Inc.

RISO reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business. Other benefits included:

• 55% reduction in total IT operations costs

• 35% reduction in backup Infrastructure costs

• Ability to start and stop non-production services to reduce operational costs

• Reduction in the number of IT vendors (from 6 to 3)

• Ability to run legacy applications independent of hardware or operating system restrictions leveraging Amazon Machine Imaging (AMI)

• They were able to perform an office relocation of HQ in early 2013, with no interruptions to business leveraging the centralized AWS computing platform

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with Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Block Store for scalable cloud computing and storage.

• Integration of the in-house Active Directory with Salesforce via the Ping Identify virtual appliance in AWS

To ensure a successful migration, Apps Associates managed this complex project and provided the following services:

• Cloud assessment and planning

• Cloud architecture design

• Cloud enablement – Proof of Concept and validation

• Cloud Deployment – Cloud migration for all applications

• Project Management

• 24x7 managed services for production operations

Apps Associates designed and built the network architecture for RISO on AWS enabling access from their five separate locations. We built a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) based site to site Virtual Private Network (VPN) between AWS and RISO’s warehouses and corporate headquarters.

Cutting Costs and Time to MarketRISO, a global manufacturer of printers and digital copiers, wanted to focus on their core business, selling and maintaining cost effective digital printing solutions. To achieve this they needed to reduce costs and improve IT agility.

RISO had several challenges with their existing IT environment:

• Their hardware (network and servers etc.) was rapidly approaching its end of life

• They needed to reduce operational expenses including hardware maintenance costs

• They had to manage IT Infrastructure across multiple locations

• They had multiple vendors and support contracts across hardware, software, IT infrastructure and business applications, resulting in a significant management overhead

• Legacy applications that had specific operating system requirements

Migration to the Cloud To address these issues, Apps Associates helped RISO to migrate their data center to the Amazon Web Services platform. The project included:

• A complete study of IT infrastructure & costs, including recommendations and a detailed plan, for migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• A Proof of Concept and validation, for Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (EBS) and OBIEE, as well as backup operations running in the cloud

• Migration of the complete in-house infrastructure and applications including SQL Server, Oracle EBS, OBIEE and Active Directory Domain controllers, as well as supporting applications such as Track-it, La Crosse, Cast Iron, Ping, Optio, and related tools

• Migration from Tivoli tape backups to Amazon’s S3 backups using Zmanda and Amazon Glacier

• Deployment of a Virtual Private Cloud on Amazon Web Services,

Results and BenefitsApps Associates designed a cost effective cloud platform, and with a rapid 6 month deployment we enabled RISO to quickly realize cost savings and maximize their return on investment.

"We knew that Apps Associates were Oracle experts but they also proved to be cloud experts too, enabling a complete infrastructure and application migration to the public cloud"

Alex OlshanCFO and Vice President - RISO, Inc.

Apps Associates managed the switchover to the AWS cloud to minimize down time and ensure business continuity for all RISO’s core systems. They reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business.

"Apps Associates understood that our objectives were to reduce costs and enable IT scalability and they helped us achieve those goals by rapidly migrating our entire data center to the cloud"

Christopher GattoniManager, I.T. Infrastructure and Support - RISO, Inc.

RISO reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business. Other benefits included:

• 55% reduction in total IT operations costs

• 35% reduction in backup Infrastructure costs

• Ability to start and stop non-production services to reduce operational costs

• Reduction in the number of IT vendors (from 6 to 3)

• Ability to run legacy applications independent of hardware or operating system restrictions leveraging Amazon Machine Imaging (AMI)

• They were able to perform an office relocation of HQ in early 2013, with no interruptions to business leveraging the centralized AWS computing platform

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with Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Block Store for scalable cloud computing and storage.

• Integration of the in-house Active Directory with Salesforce via the Ping Identify virtual appliance in AWS

To ensure a successful migration, Apps Associates managed this complex project and provided the following services:

• Cloud assessment and planning

• Cloud architecture design

• Cloud enablement – Proof of Concept and validation

• Cloud Deployment – Cloud migration for all applications

• Project Management

• 24x7 managed services for production operations

Apps Associates designed and built the network architecture for RISO on AWS enabling access from their five separate locations. We built a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) based site to site Virtual Private Network (VPN) between AWS and RISO’s warehouses and corporate headquarters.

Cutting Costs and Time to MarketRISO, a global manufacturer of printers and digital copiers, wanted to focus on their core business, selling and maintaining cost effective digital printing solutions. To achieve this they needed to reduce costs and improve IT agility.

RISO had several challenges with their existing IT environment:

• Their hardware (network and servers etc.) was rapidly approaching its end of life

• They needed to reduce operational expenses including hardware maintenance costs

• They had to manage IT Infrastructure across multiple locations

• They had multiple vendors and support contracts across hardware, software, IT infrastructure and business applications, resulting in a significant management overhead

• Legacy applications that had specific operating system requirements

Migration to the Cloud To address these issues, Apps Associates helped RISO to migrate their data center to the Amazon Web Services platform. The project included:

• A complete study of IT infrastructure & costs, including recommendations and a detailed plan, for migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• A Proof of Concept and validation, for Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (EBS) and OBIEE, as well as backup operations running in the cloud

• Migration of the complete in-house infrastructure and applications including SQL Server, Oracle EBS, OBIEE and Active Directory Domain controllers, as well as supporting applications such as Track-it, La Crosse, Cast Iron, Ping, Optio, and related tools

• Migration from Tivoli tape backups to Amazon’s S3 backups using Zmanda and Amazon Glacier

• Deployment of a Virtual Private Cloud on Amazon Web Services,

Results and BenefitsApps Associates designed a cost effective cloud platform, and with a rapid 6 month deployment we enabled RISO to quickly realize cost savings and maximize their return on investment.

"We knew that Apps Associates were Oracle experts but they also proved to be cloud experts too, enabling a complete infrastructure and application migration to the public cloud"

Alex OlshanCFO and Vice President - RISO, Inc.

Apps Associates managed the switchover to the AWS cloud to minimize down time and ensure business continuity for all RISO’s core systems. They reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business.

"Apps Associates understood that our objectives were to reduce costs and enable IT scalability and they helped us achieve those goals by rapidly migrating our entire data center to the cloud"

Christopher GattoniManager, I.T. Infrastructure and Support - RISO, Inc.

RISO reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and by redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business. Other benefits included:

• 55% reduction in total IT operations costs

• 35% reduction in backup Infrastructure costs

• Ability to start and stop non-production services to reduce operational costs

• Reduction in the number of IT vendors (from 6 to 3)

• Ability to run legacy applications independent of hardware or operating system restrictions leveraging Amazon Machine Imaging (AMI)

• They were able to perform an office relocation of HQ in early 2013, with no interruptions to business leveraging the centralized AWS computing platform