Executive Summary
AmityWA is a Perth-based NDIS provider that supports participants with services that build their skills and independence. Keeping track of each participant and managing the data behind its services had become difficult.
AmityWA engaged Peritos Solutions to set up a remote server on Microsoft Azure, giving it programmatic control of the server and its hosted virtual machines. Peritos also supplied the licensing at a discounted partner price and advised on how to keep ongoing costs down.
Project outcomes
Results & Impact
10%
Monthly licence saving
99.9%
Uptime
2 days
Setup to Go live
Background
AmityWA needed one place to run its applications and hold participant data, with simple control over the virtual machines behind them. Backup, recovery and provisioning new resources took longer than the organisation wanted.
Peritos helped AmityWA streamline its servers on Azure, showed how an Azure remote server could solve its data challenges, and put together a licensing and savings plan for the organisation.
Challenge
As an NDIS provider, AmityWA must keep each participant’s data secure while making sure its own staff can reach it when needed. It also needed backup and recovery of key application workloads to be quicker and easier.
AmityWA wanted to provision applications and resources faster, strengthen disaster recovery and business continuity, and reduce or remove downtime.
Solution
Peritos set up an Azure remote server for AmityWA, giving it programmatic control of the server and its hosted virtual machines, and moved its licensing onto discounted partner pricing.
Key Solution Capabilities
- Azure Remote Server: A cloud-hosted server for AmityWA’s applications and participant data.
- Programmatic Control: Management of the server and its hosted virtual machines through Azure.
- Token-Based Security: All API endpoints secured with tokens, on top of Microsoft’s standard support and security cover.
- Backup & Recovery: Faster backup and recovery of key workloads, backed by Microsoft production support.
- Discounted Licensing: Azure licences at partner pricing, with advice on monthly and annual commitment orders.
- Usage Reporting: Reports on licence usage and each user’s last activity date to keep licence costs visible.
Approach
Peritos deployed the Azure remote server, advised AmityWA on best practice for managing Azure licences, and recommended a savings plan based on the licences it actually needed, finishing with a handover and Q&A session.
Peritos bills AmityWA at month end on 20-day credit terms and continues to provide licence usage reporting.
