Jersey Energy: Hybrid Cloud and IT Support

Learn how Genmar IT boosted Jersey Energy's performance, security, and cost efficiency with a hybrid-cloud solution.
· Cyber Security
· Reduced IT Expenditure
· Resilience
· Performance and Productivity
The whole process has been praised by my boss, Stuart and how seamless it's been, and how much of an improvement it is on our previous solution, and the NAS drive solution has made the working procedure for the guys in Guernsey infinitely better. A big thanks to everyone, It was a daunting idea to migrate, but it has been hassle-free.
The objective for Jersey Energy was to avoid a costly on-premise server replacement, resolve remote access performance issues, and to mediate security risks associated with ageing hardware.
Following a Cyber Security and Technical Audit, Genmar IT designed a hybrid-cloud environment for Jersey Energy to avoid replacement of the legacy on-premise server. Our solution made use of multiple Synology NAS’, multi-site NAS synchronisation, and Microsoft 365 allowing Jersey Energy to decommission the on-premise server.
Due to the location of Jersey Energy’s sites, we agreed to complete the entire project remotely, which included the below steps.
· Cyber Security Audit
· Technical Audit
· Strategic IT Consultation and Design
· Migration of AD Roles and Email data to Microsoft 365
· Adoption of all endpoint devices to AzureAD
· Server Data migration to a NAS per site
Jersey energy requires access to large complex CAD files at multiple sites which had always caused performance issues in the past. A full-cloud option would not have addressed this requirement adequately.
The easiest solution in this case was to replace the server like-for-like, however, this would have been costly our objective is always to keep the client’s best interests at heart. Therefore, the most cost-effective option whilst improving performance was paramount. Agreeing to migrate all server data and synchronising multiple high-performance NAS’ was the most cost-efficient and resilient solution.
· Estimated cost saving of £10,299.87 in Year 1
· Cyber Security standard improved in line with Cyber Essentials Plus requirements
· Performance issues resolved for remote staff