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BSM GLOBALINCREASE THEIR ABILITY TO DEALWITH SCALE & BE MORE RESILIENT
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CASE STUDYBSM GLOBAL
BBSM GLOBAL INCREASE THEIR ABILITY TO DEAL WITH SCALE AND BE MORE RESILIENT WITH MELBOURNE IT ENTERPRISE SERVICES.
ABOUT BSM GLOBALBSM Global is a leading supplier of trade management
solutions for importers and exporters, providing technical
and commercial consulting, as well as cloud based software
solutions for international trade and supply chain operations.
THE CHALLENGEBSM Global had been running all their applications through
physical data centres, which carried with them a requirement
for continuous capital expenditure and a constant need to be
refreshed.
BSM Global was also looking to eliminate the ‘technical key
person risk’ in its online supply chain management system.
This system was managed by select individuals, who were the
only people with the required knowledge to keep the platform
running. BSM Global wanted to eliminate the risk associated
with being reliant on a single team, and, in doing so, increase
their ability to deal with scale and be more resilient and
responsive to change.
BSM Global engaged Melbourne IT to help them migrate their
application to the cloud and manage their systems.
THE SOLUTIONMelbourne IT’s solution incorporates multi-tier, multi-
AZ architecture that remained sensitive to BSM Global’s
application and data dependencies while employing a range of
AWS capabilities used to improve resiliency and performance.
A key element of this solution was the transition from
MySQL to Aurora, a database service that will increase BSM
Global’s ability to deal with scale and performance, and will
support their backend service dealing with front end activity.
Aurora performs up to five times faster than traditional
databases, resulting in reduced risk, and increased scale and
performance.
A current program of work to transition the primary file system
to Amazon EFS is expected to further improve resiliency,
performance, and the end-user experience.
Melbourne IT’s security principles protect the platform: VPC
subnet, security group, internal/external elastic load balancing,
and NAT gateway architecture isolate critical systems; VPC
VPN, AWS KMS, and SSL protect data in transit and at rest;
multi-factor SAML-based SSO, SIEM-integrated CloudTrail
logging, and refined IAM roles and policies control and record
platform access and activity; while customised event logging,
AMI management, and service bootstrapping help complete
the security picture.
After migrating their application to the cloud, BSM Globalsaw an improvement in the resiliency and performanceof their database, as well as a corresponding reductionin their risk profile.
THE RIGHT SOLUTION IS MELBOURNE ITmelbourneit.com.au/enterprise
1800 664 222 [email protected]
THE OUTCOMEAfter migrating their application to the cloud, BSM Global
saw an improvement in the resiliency and performance of
their database, as well as a corresponding reduction in their
risk profile. The application is now able to automatically
recover from failure events using core AWS competencies
such as auto-scaling and self-healing. This has removed the
‘technical key person risk’, ensuring that the platform is able to
automatically recover from infrastructure-related failure events
without technical resource intervention.
Melbourne IT has also assisted BSM Global in operationalising
their IT spend, providing them with greater clarity around their
monthly IT expenditure.
As a result of Melbourne IT’s improvements, BSM Global now
has an application with a lower risk profile, improved resiliency,
and an ability to automatically recover from failure events, all
while retaining the flexibility to securely accommodate unique
customer data formats, receipt methods, and processing
requirements.