# Getting Business-Critical Workloads off Ageing Kit

How Elevance moved a UK PLC’s business-critical ERP and operational workloads off ageing office infrastructure to resilient hosting with tested disaster recovery.

**Sector:** Large UK PLC  |  **Scale:** ERP and operational workloads

**The challenge**

Business-critical ERP and operational workloads remained on ageing office-hosted infrastructure. Power, hardware and legacy operating-system risks threatened availability and diverted attention from transformation.

**The Elevance approach**

Elevance designed a transition combining resilient hosted infrastructure, disaster recovery and progressive adoption of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

**What we delivered**

- Assessed critical workloads and recovery requirements
- Designed primary hosting and secondary recovery arrangements
- Planned migration of servers and supporting networks
- Separated immediate resilience needs from longer-term modernisation
- Created a controlled pathway toward cloud services

**Business outcomes**

- Reduced exposure to office-based infrastructure failure
- Improved recovery and continuity posture
- Centralised management of critical workloads
- Protected legacy operations during transformation
- Space and time for a planned cloud migration

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Elevance is the business transformation division of Stiperstone Group, based in Telford, Shropshire. We modernise legacy IT estates into secure, cloud-first foundations for UK mid-market and enterprise organisations, measured against business outcomes rather than hours. Elevance is a consultancy that delivers transformation programmes and senior expertise; it is not an outsourced help desk and does not resell software licences.

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