After months of preparations and several weekends of work from our IT-team, we are happy to announce that Viedoc now operates in the Microsoft Azure platform. This means that all our clients outside of the Asian market continue to have their data located within the EU, but now in France as opposed to Sweden.
The move to Azure took place in several steps throughout 2019. This included administration, analysis, validations and more. The final stage of the migration was executed in September, working into the early hours of Sunday 29th. Our Product Operations Manager was one of the lucky ones performing the move:
“We had to extend our service window between 02:00 and 07:00 UTC to be able to make the final step – moving the database. Everything went smoothly but we finished one hour past planned end time, due to the amount of data.”
Viedoc is developed and operated using Microsoft frameworks and products. And Microsoft is in the forefront of cloud computing development and is certified in ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 (cloud) and 27018 (cloud privacy). Therefore, Azure was the natural choice.
What can our clients expect from now on, when Viedoc uses Azure as platform?
“There are no changes to the actual system that our users can see. But in general, we now have larger capability with access to more redundancy and more resources – leading to even better availability for our clients using Viedoc.”
Sounds great! What other benefits are there from this migration?
“Well, the migration to Azure goes hand in hand with our next goal, which is to become certified in ISO 27001. Since Azure is also certified, we all benefit from using a vendor that has a standardized and globally recognized security work.”
Thank you to the whole IT-team. Good job!
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