Alva

About Alva

Alva is a water and energy service provider owned by the City of Jyväskylä. Alva has been providing energy solutions in the Jyväskylä area for over a century, and today the energy company also offers its solutions nationwide.

The Challenge

Alva’s IT systems were moved to the cloud for a higher level of security/safety and more efficient use of resources. It was also essential to modernise services to meet the digital requirements of the business. The data centres had outdated technology and the energy company needed an experienced but agile partner to migrate to the cloud, map the cloud opportunities that migration would bring and maintain the cloud.

Due to the specificities of the energy sector and mission-critical systems, a strong experience in multicloud environments and system-specific assessments of the potential for exporting to the cloud was required from the cloud partner. Alva also sought geographical decentralisation of its infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted production even in exceptional circumstances.

Our Solution

Cloud2 was chosen as Alva’s cloud partner because of its strong expertise and migration experience with Microsoft Azure as the platform technology. Due to the critical nature of the industry and more complex ERP systems than usual, the partnership started with careful planning, tacit knowledge documentation, action plan development and application migration workshops.

Alva’s cloud management model was built on Cloud2 Governance as a Service, after which the Azure migration project was quickly and cost-effectively developed using Cloud2’s proven project methodology. The partnership is ongoing and Cloud2 will continue to serve as Alva’s full cloud partner in the future.

Alva’s cloud environment is monitored and managed 24/7 by Cloud2 through its Managed Cloud and Managed AVD hosting service.

Results

With the migration, Alva has gained a stable platform that makes extensive use of Azure’s various services, enabling flexible resource management and the implementation of new solutions quickly and efficiently.

In addition to scalability, enhanced security and cost optimisation, Alva manages its infrastructure in a more independent and holistic way. The availability of the IT environment has improved and the ability to respond to business resource and system requirements is much more efficient.

With the migration, the energy company’s IT infrastructure is no longer confined to a single local data centre, but is geographically distributed for increased security and resilience.