Challenge
On-premises infrastructure was costly, cumbersome, slow, and prone to outages.  Strict compliance, cybersecurity, and quality control requirements meant data/applications had to stay on-premises — but this limited speed and agility.
Headline Result
300%-500%
MTTR reduced
Solution
Adopt a hybrid cloud strategy, leveraging Microsoft Azure as the cloud platform. 
Collaborate with Mobiz (a Microsoft Partner) to plan and manage migration: migrating > 15,000 servers and 1,800 applications over time. 
Use tools like Azure Migrate and Azure VMware Solution to migrate workloads. 
Apply automation via the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, using baseline templates for new infrastructure, enabling rapid and compliant deployments.
Results
- Deployment speed dramatically improved: new Azure landing zones can be deployed in hours instead of months, at one-third the previous time and cost.
- Fewer outages and much faster recovery: MTTR reduced by 300–500%.
- Improved agility and scalability: Sanofi can dynamically scale workloads up/down, speed up app development, and accelerate time-to-market — speeding up medicine manufacturing and delivery.
Technologies Used
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Migrate
- Azure VMware Solution
- Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
"With help from Microsoft and Mobiz, we were able to deliver a fully qualified landing zone in Azure in one-third the time and at one-third the budget compared to previous cloud efforts. For example, Sanofi can deploy a new fully qualified landing zone in a matter of hours, when previously it would take us six months or more to open a new site or country."
Sam Chenaur
Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure, Sanofi