Teams Calling: MacroPlan
What was the Issue
MacroPlan engaged Cloud Made Simple in a consulting role to understand their current technology state and provide guidance on the most suitable future state for their infrastructure and technology model. Their infrastructure was nearing the refresh deadline and were seeking a partner to assist with the refresh project, updating hardware across all locations and configuring vSphere and Windows DFS (distributed file system) for the network, integrated with their existing SD-WAN infrastructure.
What was the End Result
- Completely mobile workforce, connect and work from anywhere with improved connection speed
- Reduced digital estate from 14 virtual machines to 2
- Removed requirement for complex and costly SD-WAN configuration
- Removed device requirements for onsite/VPN access to connect to corporate resources
- Reduction in infrastructure partner maintenance costs
- Re in telephony connection and maintenance costs
- 34% reduction in time spent supporting staff connectivity
- 74% reduction in time administering IT systems
- 5% reduction in power costs
- Removed three year refresh cycle high CAPx requirement
- Improved end-user connectivity
- Increased security leveraging the M365 additional security features
