Customer

The customer is a public community college serving a coastal county in California with two campuses and many satellite locations.

The Problem

Migrate existing data center and legacy infrastructure to the cloud.

The Vision and Challenge

As part of a larger strategic initiative, the community college sought to shift its workloads to the cloud to reduce IT infrastructure costs, enhance security, and provide faster access to student data. With an impending, uncertain academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic, the college believed that the cloud would enhance its business agility while also accommodating various forms of in-person and remote learning. Their migration to the cloud needed to be completed in the shortest possible time and within a limited budget.

The Outcome

The college worked with NWN’s Cloud team to define the scope, strategy, and budget for their cloud migration. 

With NWN’s migration methodology providing guidance, NWN’s experts engaged with the college’s leadership and IT team to conduct a thorough analysis of business objectives, technical requirements, and other factors, which revealed that the AWS cloud was the best choice for their goals. NWN provided a team of cloud engineers who followed the methodology to migrate their on-prem PeopleSoft ERP application to AWS, which is the primary application for their student data. In addition, they provisioned us for AWS infrastructure services, including landing zone, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and Transit Gateway.

The customer will benefit from reduced IT infrastructure costs, faster access to student data, and enhanced security. NWN’s Cloud Architects are currently strategizing with the college’s IT team about AppStream 2.0 and AWS Connect to empower their remote education needs.