Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution for On-Premise JD Edwards Workload for a Global Oil Major

Client

Our client is a leading international oil and gas company present in several specialist segments. Oil developed by the client is long-lasting, creates sustainable value, and has several important industrial applications.

Challenges

• Absence of a far-site data center to meet regulatory compliance for a business continuity plan.
• Lack of a scalable, cost-effective Disaster Recovery (DR) solution to meet the audit requirements.
• Building a secure cloud infrastructure to host the DR solution and meet all required Center for Information Security (CIS) and Infosec standards.

LTM Solution

• Implemented a lift and shift approach that minimized impact on client’s business and schedules. This also eliminated the need for training or transition, saving about 1 hour per user.
• Setup Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Azure cloud provider to incorporate user authentication to limit access to the DR JDE application to authorized users.
• Accommodated domain controller to extend the client’s domain on the cloud for DR, thus synchronizing security policies and patch application, and ensuring that the solution was in line with the existing setup.
• Enforced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect the JDE application URL from web exploits.
• LTM provided a customized solution for every client concern to build trust and confidence in cloud security solutions.

Business Benefits

• Replicated data using MS SQL Always-On cluster, resulting in almost zero data loss.
• The disaster recovery plan had RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of less than 15 minutes.
• Pitched a database solution to work on the same lines as the existing system, eliminating the need for a new JDE license.
• Identified 100 key users who would benefit from this plan and access the system in the event of a disaster.