The company was appointed by a 50,000 user public sector organisation to design, from the ground up, a cloud infrastructure design and connectivity pattern to enable them to take advantage of the scale and agility of the public cloud.  
The technological goal was the development of a secure architecture to enable the client to:

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• Establishing a secure Azure presence to act as an extension to existing datacentres; this also included the design of Azure architecture to facilitate a full software delivery pipeline

• End-to-end encryption of dataflows over dedicated and resilient links using Express Route.

• Integration with existing identity and access management platforms to facilitate single sign-on

• Engineering and delivery of an Infrastructure-as-code toolset to enable the infrastructure to be fully managed in code

• Expanding the system to cater to additional functionality, as well as new and emerging use-cases and requirements

 

i15 sought to develop a new architecture to provide a streamlined, secure, highly efficient infrastructure and developed the adoption frameworks needed to mobilise workloads to the cloud. Also, transitioning from a legacy platform, the team sought to ensure the architecture addressed previous inefficiencies related to agility, usability, power consumption, and data centre footprint

i15 undertook targeted research and analysis of the market and client’s infrastructure to determine the best product choices to facilitate the deployment of the project. This also included identifying and overcoming any potential barriers to adoption. 

The team delivered enterprise architecture (EA) designs and patterns that catered for various areas, such as:

• High and low-level designs, including technical implementation methods

• Security advice, design and accreditation of the proposed solution

• Secure integration and encryption achieved through network designs

• Full scripted and repeatable environment build mechanisms using Terraform to streamline business development

 

Following the delivery of this capability, the company have subsequently deployed several complex Azure based environment deployments:

• Strategic Enterprise Data Platform – this was designed, implemented using IaC and supported.  Currently leading the data migration from legacy solutions.

• eDiscovery platform – transitioned from a legacy on premise platform into a fully automated Azure based platform.  The company managed all phases of design, implementation and on-going support.

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