MSP Corp Helps West Coast Reduction Ltd. Optimize Their IT Infrastructure Through Their Cloud Transformation Journey.
About the Client
West Coast Reduction Ltd. (WCRL) is Western Canada’s largest rendering company, operating in six metropolitan areas, processing 1 billion pounds of material every year.
Project Managed by:
- MSP Corp West
- Vancouver, BC
The Challenge
WCRL developed a vision for the strategic use of Information Technology to deliver IT in a more robust and agile way. Cloud computing in its various forms was judged as the best way to meet this vision.
On the path to optimizing the performance of WCRL’s infrastructure, the IT team engaged MSP Corp to assist in building and implementing a cloud infrastructure plan. Several platforms and processes needed to be updated:
- Disaster recovery needed to be set in place for the hundreds of applications that were used within day-to-day operations
- Uniform collaboration and information sharing needed to be adapted to accommodate the disparate information structure
- Better protection and encryption of their devices needed to secure corporate resources
The Solution
Stepping in to reorganize the structure of their organization, MSP Corp’s managed services solutions helped West Coast Reduction road-map legacy infrastructure and develop a proper disaster recovery and security stance to protect these applications.
As the first line of attack, MSP Corp inventoried West Coast Reductions’ applications and systems to identify opportunities for application modernization, improved security, and business continuity in the event of an outage. Of the items identified, MSP Corp helped WCRL improve on:
- Investing in Azure Site Recovery as a Disaster Recovery solution, Softlanding was able to ensure WCRL’s accounting system would be up and running when planned and unplanned outages occurred.
- Implementation of MFA and Intune for device management and conditional access – all email on devices needs to be encrypted and devices enrolled on Intune.
- Road-mapping a plan to move their ERP and DocuSign application to Azure – thus reducing the burden of staff to constantly maintain their most integral applications and enhancing system performance.
Benefits
