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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

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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
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