CISO FORUM

The Company

Since the 1940s, Al Baker Group is a prominent leader in the healthcare, FMCG, and real estate industries in Qatar. The group has evolved into one of the top private business organizations in the GCC area by offering comprehensive end-to-end services and solutions. It has a diverse portfolio with regard to the FMCG and Real Estate

sectors.

Problem Statement

The Al-Baker Group’s infrastructure previously operated On-Premises with a variety of servers and apps. To take full use of Azure’s benefits, the Al-Baker Group team opted to move the on-premises infrastructure to the Azure Cloud to gain technological innovation and a competitive edge.

Proposed Solution

The following steps were taken by the Visionet Team and the client to successfully assess the current On-Premises infrastructure:

Interviews
Azure migrate assessment
Infrastructure workload dependency mapping
Submission of Azure migration summary

The Visionet team conducted the following activities to complete the planning and

strategy for shifting all resources and workload to Azure:

Azure infrastructure design discussion
Cloud security discussion
Application migration strategy
Design Documents

Our Azure team also created a solution for a client’s infrastructure migration on Azure

using the Microsoft reference design and best practices. Here are some of the actions

that were taken:

Azure active directory implementation
Hub and Spoke Architecture on Azure
Azure Infrastructure build using Terraforms
SIEM solution implementation
High availability and DR solution
Lift and Shift of Virtual Machines (IaaS)
Implement NVAs from different ISVs as cloud security best practices
Re-Factor the SQL servers to Azure database for SQL managed Instances (PaaS)
Isolated Environments and Virtual VNet configuration for Azure Web Apps
Configuration of Azure App Service Environment (ASE) for App Service deployment

Customer Benefits

In addition to flexible, resilient, and highly available infrastructure, Al-Baker Group attained several benefits by transferring the On-prem cloud infrastructure to Azure.