animal4life scenario
Animal4life Scenario
Information
- Animal rescue and awareness organization
- Global, with HQ in Brisbane Australia - 100 staff
- Call center, admin, IT, marketing, legal and accounts
- Around 100 remote workers across Australia and globally
- Animal care, activists, and lobbyists
- Major offices in London, New York, and Seattle
Infrastructure
- Small on-premises datacenter in Brisbane
- Badly implemented AWS trial in Sydney region
- A few isolated Azure/GCP pilots
- Global offices and mobile staff utilize Brisbane infrastructure
- Cost-conscious but progressive management team
Global architecture
Current problems
- Legacy on-premises hardware is failing
- AWS/Azure pilots are messy and not best practice
- Performance issues for field workers
- Lack of high availability and scalability - hardware is expensive
- Staff skills/capabilities struggle - little automation
- Global expansion concerns - cost for new infrastructure
Idea outcomes
- Fast performance for all field workers
- Able to deploy into new regions quickly when required
- Low cost and scalable base infrastructure
- Agility - spin up new marketing campaigns, social and progressive applications (IOT, Big Data, etc.)
- Automation - low base staffing costs