Suur-Savon Sähkö

About Suur-Savon Sähkö

Suur-Savon Sähkö - the group is a diversified energy group, responsible for electricity transmission and heating in its area of operations. The group’s projected turnover is approximately EUR 250 million in 2021 and it has approximately 110 employees.

The Challenge

From 2021, Suur-Savon Sähkö has embarked on a large-scale business-driven cloud migration as part of their vision for the future of digitalisation. The main objective was to build new cloud-native applications, but the overall vision would also include the modernisation of the traditional data centre infrastructure and, with a partial migration to the cloud, IoT and e.g. real-time data processing and analytics.

“The challenge was to find a cost-effective and scalable solution for leveraging business data in the cloud. The business had identified several use cases where data collected from different sources could be used in production and business processes, hence the urgency to find out. We did not have the expertise to design and implement a cloud solution ourselves, we decided to look for a suitable partner to support our cloud migration.”

Pekka Nurmi, ICT Manager, Suur-Savon Sähkö

Our Solution

The co-operation between Suur-Savon Sähkön and Cloud2 started by developing a cloud management model for the customer using Cloud2’s pre-developed platform. The management model defined the cloud design principles, which guided the building of Azure LandingZone using Cloud2’s ready automation.

At the same time, it was determined how the overall cloud management will be managed and how responsibilities will be distributed.

“A carefully designed management model that is scalable across different cloud environments allows us to react securely, quickly and in a controlled manner when new needs arise. Cloud implementations are designed and executed in close collaboration with Cloud2 and system providers. Without a governance model, this collaboration is difficult to manage in a way that ensures that the different solutions are built and maintained in a consistent and seamless way.”

Pekka Nurmi, ICT Manager, Suur-Savon Sähkö

Results

With Cloud2’s ready-made, developed platform, the cloud management model was created in a week. With these specifications, its technical implementation, LandingZone, was created in Azure using Terraform automation.

The easy and fast start-up created clear cost efficiencies for Suur-Savon Sähkö, while ensuring a secure and managed migration to the cloud.

“By using Terraform automation to maintain and build cloud environments, the likelihood of human error is significantly reduced. At the same time, it ensures that environments are compliant and easier to maintain in the future.”

Jyri Häkkinen, ICT Specialist, Suur-Savon Sähkö