World Kinect Corporation is a global energy management company, offering a suite of energy advisory, management and fulfillment services, digital and other technology solutions, as well as sustainability products and services across the energy product spectrum. It caters to 160,000+ customers across 200 countries.
The Challenge
Outdated hardware was one of the biggest challenges affecting IT operations at WKC – especially, the unsupported Solaris operating system, which posed a critical risk of business disruption along with overall security concerns.
Sutherland Transformation
It was imperative to transition from the existing on-premise servers to more resilient and flexible AWS Cloud infrastructure. This required a three-phase approach:
- Phase 1 – Re-Platform from Solaris to Linux OS
- Phase 2 – Upgrade On-Premises: Oracle Upgrade Include EBS, Databases, WebLogic Stack and Code Refactoring.
- Phase 3 – Cloud Migration to AWS: Lift and Shift workloads to the AWS cloud platform in three waves to eliminate Risk and complexity.
Collaboration for Platform Readiness: The combined effort of our team’s timely expert recommendations, factoring in criticality and dependencies and an experience into how the interconnected components function in different environments was instrumental in the successful AWS implementation.
The Outcome
- Increased Scalability & Flexibility. With the migration to cloud AWS, we achieved the ability to respond fast to changing business needs allowing us greater scalability and flexibility.
- Cost Efficiency. Effectively saved over 2.7 Mn in cost with pay-as-you-go pricing structure and better operational capabilities for WKC.
- Performance Optimization and Faster Disaster Recovery. Enhanced performance through careful optimization strategies ensuring high availability and robust disaster recovery solutions.
- Agility & Innovation. Experience simplified management and easy maintenance allowing for better agility and innovation within the processes in the new environment.
- Elasticity for Testing & Development. With AWS, test and development elasticity was enhanced significantly due to robust infrastructure and dynamic resource allocation for auto scaling.
Saved in cost with pay-as-you-go pricing structure and better operational capabilities.
Increase in system performance since migration.
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Services
Cloud, Application Services, Business Operations
Industry
Oil and Gas
