What the Client Was Facing
A higher education institution was running a legacy on-premises setup for its student management system, learning platform and administrative tools. Infrastructure costs were £1.2M annually for ageing hardware. The IT team spent 60% of their time on maintenance.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS migrated all workloads to GCP using lift-and-shift for legacy systems followed by re-platforming of the learning management system to Cloud Run. Terraform managed all infrastructure, Cloud Identity handled SSO across all applications and committed use discounts were applied from day one.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
Annual infrastructure cost reduced by 40% — saving £480k per year
IT maintenance time freed from 60% to 20% — enabling 3 new innovation projects
Student-facing application performance improved 65% via Cloud CDN
Disaster recovery implemented for the first time in the institution's history
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