Finished:
December 2022
Category:
Construction
Client:
Royal Mosa
With Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), we’ve been able to make our environment significantly more reliable and resilient!
IT provider XCES has implemented a fully Azure Arc-enabled IT infrastructure for Limburg-based tile manufacturer Koninklijke Mosa. With Azure Stack HCI, Mosa now has access to a future-proof and reliable cloud environment that brings all the benefits of the cloud to their on-premises setup.
In the exploratory phase leading up to the implementation, Mosa and XCES concluded that Azure Stack HCI was the right solution for the company. With XCES, Mosa had a single, dedicated point of contact to ensure the implementation was properly managed, using an Integrated Azure Stack HCI solution from Microsoft and DataON.
On-prem with the benefits of the cloud
“We had to keep our IT environment running on-premises for the next five years,” explains Lenny Omloo, IT specialist at Mosa. “With Azure Stack HCI, we found the ideal hybrid solution that allows us to make even better use of our Microsoft investments.” Koninklijke Mosa and XCES jointly designed the new environment, and when it came time to migrate, there was hardly any downtime in the production environment: the hardware was installed and configured in just three days. XCES completed the migration of 35 VMs in just 30 minutes per device.
Cobben is pleased with the results:
With Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), we’ve been able to make our environment significantly more reliable and resilient!
Hans Cobben, Manager Infrastructure & Security bij Mosa
A future-ready IT environment
André van den Berg, Managing Director of XCES, is very pleased with the results of the implementation: “Azure Stack HCI is the perfect solution for companies like Koninklijke Mosa that want to maintain an on-premises environment while still leveraging the benefits of the cloud for their organization. We’re extremely proud to have contributed to the future of a company with such a long and rich history as Mosa.”
De nieuwe Azure Arc-enabled infrastructuur is geïmplementeerd op twee locaties die samen ongeveer 500 gebruikers bedienen. De omgeving bestaat uit een stretched cluster met twee nodes per locatie die elkaar spiegelen. Mocht er dan één locatie onverwacht uitvallen, gaat er geen data verloren en kan de productie gewoon door blijven gaan. “Die operationele integriteit is cruciaal voor onze fabriek – die moet namelijk continu blijven draaien om onze tegels te produceren”, vertelt Hans Cobben, Manager Infrastructure & Security bij Mosa. “Met Azure Stack HCI hebben we onze omgeving een stuk betrouwbaarder en veerkrachtiger kunnen maken!”
Read the full customer story for more information on the Microsoft-website.
