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Frank Recruitment Group is an award-winning, multi-brand specialist global recruitment firm with over 1000 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Frank Recruitment Group was experiencing rapid YoY growth on a global scale whilst still operating with an internal data centre, shared storage and an ageing on-premise infrastructure. As a result the company\u2019s IT department was finding it increasingly difficult to scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Focusing on growing its business while enabling employees\u2019 success and motivation through \u201cexceptional office facilities, top-level training, fast-track career progression, and ongoing professional development\u201d is a major strategy for Frank Recruitment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Global CIO Mark Hill knew that the organisation\u2019s current systems and environment needed updating to improve agility and create a flexible working environment across all offices. Inevitably that meant aligning the business to a Digital First strategy moving away from on-premise technology and migrating to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why Microsoft Azure and Acora?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Having decided on Microsoft Azure as its cloud platform of choice, Frank Recruitment\u2019s initial requirement was to find a suitable partner to support them with the migration. In Acora they found a partner who could not only design and build the technology solution and migrate them to Azure, but could provide ongoing support of their cloud environment, freeing up time for the internal IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Frank IT team soon recognised that Acora had strong experience at moving legacy systems and workloads from a traditional platform in to Azure leveraging IaaS and PaaS and at the same time take into consideration compliance, governance and legal requirements for archiving and securing data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acora Approach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Acora set out with the main objective to transform the company\u2019s datacentre environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Service Design<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The first step was to engage Acora\u2019s cloud architects to define a global service design for the new Azure platform. The service design engagement output was a comprehensive design document, developed from information collated during service design workshops and knowledge gathering meetings. Acora worked with Frank Recruitment\u2019s internal stakeholders to finalise the Azure design and migration approach ready to execute the transition project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Migration<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Following the sign-off of the target Azure architecture, Acora\u2019s Project Management team started planning and initiating the Azure Migration project involving Frank\u2019s offices across Europe, US and Australia. The project took 6 months to complete and was delivered within the time and budget parameters set by Frank Recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Management<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Acora now provide ongoing 24\/7 management and support of Frank Recruitment\u2019s Azure environment. A dedicated support team looks after Frank Recruitment\u2019s systems, services and applications, making sure they are constantly monitored and protected and are available to support the growing needs of the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Through Acora we found a partner who could not only design and build our cloud platform in Azure, but also provide ongoing support of our environment. We now have a fully scalable, modern IT platform which enables us to focus on achieving further international expansion.<\/p>Mark Hill, Global CIO, Frank Recruitment Group<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Business benefits of the new Azure environment<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Flexible working<\/strong> \u2013 Frank Recruitment\u2019s global workforce are able to work anywhere and on any device and with increased collaboration.<\/li>
Cost saving<\/strong> – Moving the on-premise infrastucture over to Azure has meant retiring some traditional on premises infrastructure and software tools which is removing significant cost from the organisation annually.<\/li>
High availability and global scalability<\/strong> \u2013 moving to the cloud has enabled Frank Recruitment\u2019s IT department to scale much more easily across their global footprint.<\/li>
Improved security & compliance<\/strong> \u2013 Microsoft Azure is a leader in IaaS security and Frank Recruitment\u2019s environment is safeguarded with tools and technologies that protect the platform and the end user.<\/li>
Global data centres<\/strong> – Because Azure is backed up by Microsoft\u2019s growing number of global managed data centres, user experience is greatly improved by having a local data centre.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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