Voya Cloud Migration

Challenges.

Voya IM was moving out of their location at Windsor, CT and thus wished to reduce risks by having a business continuity solution in place. For the same, they needed to migrate their on-Prem computing resources, which included 700+ TB of databases, 250+ applications and services present at the location to Microsoft Azure cloud. To add on, validation of migration of 800+ enterprise systems with disaster recovery within a span of 15 months had to be completed.

Solution.

Coforge followed a streamlined approach and an in-house converged cloud adaptation framework for migration. It started with having a clear picture of why the customer wanted to migrate, then after the assessment of the business situation, Coforge started with defining the methods and tools, which were required for migration. Following this, migration started.

Utilizing the same framework, Voya IM was facilitated with an assessment and migration plan.

• Presales activity continued for approximately 3 months where, multiple client workshops were organized to analyze the business case in detail
• Realization of the gaps and bottlenecks was done using fitness assessments
• Considerable amount of time was spent to simplify the process by removing the complications
• Business adaptation framework was the key to the migration process
• Design workshops were organized to decide on the application, data and infrastructure design
• Security and regulatory compliances that needed to be adhered were defined
• The tools and methodology to be used were established
• Once done with strategizing the process, Iterative methodology (agile) was used to move candidate workloads to Azure
• Coforge created interdependent application groups and then they were put into sprints based on numerous design principles and application requirements

The impact.

Coforge made sure that the process is completed to a degree that all in-scope and servers were easily decommissioned with cost efficiency. Because of this migration, Voya IM successfully moved out of their location at Windsor, CT and was able to set up a business continuity solution for smooth functioning. They were able to move the capital expenditure to operational expenditure and created a better cost model. Voya IM had been trying to adopt agile for their organization from past many months and were failing at it. They benefited from Coforge working closely with their organizational process and were able to adopt agile in the same period.