2,000
virtual machines managed and secured from Azure
3 months
to roll out Azure management and security
One view
for security and server operations

The challenge

A global petrochemical company managed its servers with Microsoft Configuration Manager, a tool its desktop team no longer used and its server team didn’t want to own. Servers on-premises and in the cloud were managed with different tools, so the security and server operations teams had no shared view across environments.

What we did

  • Estimated costs up front, then designed the hybrid security and management architecture in workshops.
  • Connected on-premises servers to Azure with Azure Arc, making Azure the single place to manage 2,000 virtual machines.
  • Moved patching, monitoring and configuration to Azure Update Manager, Azure Monitor and Azure Automation, with Azure Policy for governance and compliance.
  • Turned on Microsoft Defender for Cloud, including Defender for Servers and Defender for SQL, alongside Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR.

What’s next

Security and server operations now share one view in Azure with fewer platforms to run, and new servers get security, monitoring and configuration automatically.

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