With a WAN upgrade and cloud migration, we supported SAS International to embrace the cloud and leave legacy systems behind.
CLIENT
SAS International
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
SERVICE
Secure Networks
The client
Its success is built on continued investment in manufacturing and achieving value for clients through world-class engineered solutions. The company has recently expanded its export markets and employs nearly 900 staff internationally.
The challenges
Historically, many of these were hosted within on-site ageing servers that had poor connectivity, and the company’s key concerns were reliability and how to boost performance. The company recognised the problem, but with such specialist systems, it wasn’t as easy as simply replacing them, as often an alternative wasn’t available.
The modernising of its systems needed to be done gradually, moving away from on-premise where possible and looking at private and public cloud alternatives. SAS International appointed managed services specialist Nasstar as its strategic IT supplier, which quickly identified that a key issue was the underlying connectivity.
Our goal
The outcome
SAS International successfully transitioned 95% of its systems to the cloud in just three years, using a carefully managed, step-by-step approach that avoided disruption to critical business processes.
The new cloud-based infrastructure has delivered 99.999% uptime, an enormous improvement from the previous two to three outages per day, ensuring greater reliability and business continuity.
With Nasstar managing the cloud environment, SAS International’s lean IT team can focus on strategic priorities rather than day-to-day support, significantly reducing operational strain.
The move to a cloud-first model has made GDPR compliance and future regulatory demands easier to manage, with documented, secure systems that support bespoke and complex IT environments.
"We have a lean IT team, so taking this responsibility out of our hands and giving it to Nasstar resolved a huge headache. With their help, we have delivered a step-change. From having zero systems in the Cloud just three years ago, today around 95% are now Cloud-based. This had to be a very carefully-managed transition so as not to disrupt our complex business."
James Greene
Group IT Manager
•SAS International
