Executive Summary & Key Results

Girnar Newtel Solutions, a rapidly expanding digital technology provider, migrated its fragmented legacy and multi-cloud environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This comprehensive modernization initiative successfully resolved critical issues related to slow provisioning, limited scalability, and high operational costs, establishing a robust, automated foundation for future growth.

The Client: Girnar Newtel Solutions

Girnar Newtel Solutions is a fast-growing digital technology firm that was experiencing significant scaling and operational hurdles due to its reliance on a legacy multi-cloud and on-premises environment. To sustain its aggressive growth trajectory and accelerate product releases, the organization needed a secure, high-performance, and cost-efficient infrastructure model that could support massive peaks in user demand.

The Challenge (Problem Statement)

Girnar Newtel faced compounded challenges from operating fragmented, outdated systems, which delayed product delivery and inflated expenses:

• Operational Bottlenecks: Server provisioning and infrastructure setup were manual processes, taking up to 24 hours, severely delaying feature releases and deployment agility.

• Cost Inefficiency: Inconsistent resource utilization across environments led to rising infrastructure costs and less efficient resource allocation.

• Limited Availability & Disaster Recovery: The on-premises MySQL database (storing 250 GB of critical data) lacked necessary redundancy and failover mechanisms, posing a high risk of downtime and data exposure.

• Scalability Constraints: The rigid infrastructure could not handle increasing transaction volumes or high-traffic periods, restricting the ability to scale to meet growing business demands.

The Solution: Our Approach

The proposed solution was a phased, zero-downtime migration strategy to transition the entire infrastructure, including the business-critical 250 GB MySQL database, to a fully managed and automated environment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Implementation Phases:

Phase 1: Building a Modern Cloud Foundation

1. Secure Infrastructure Deployment: Established a secure, scalable VPC network on GCP, enhancing security through centralized access controls and restricted network policies.

2. Automated Deployment: Implemented automated deployment pipelines (using Deployment Manager) to streamline provisioning.

3. Traffic Management: Deployed Cloud Load Balancing for robust traffic distribution and continuous reliability.

Phase 2: Seamless Workload and Database Migration

1. Database Migration (On-Prem to Cloud SQL): The 250 GB on-premises MySQL database was migrated to Google Cloud SQL for MySQL using a dump and restore method, ensuring high availability and robust data protection features.

2. Production Workload Migration: Migrated all production workloads and critical data from the previous environment to GCP.

3. Optimization: Optimized all Compute Engine and storage resources for peak performance and immediate cost control.

Results & Customer Benefits

The CloudLeap project successfully delivered on all core business goals, transforming the client's infrastructure into a highly scalable, competitive asset.

• Accelerated Deployment: The implementation of automated pipelines reduced server provisioning time from 24 hours to just 2 minutes, significantly accelerating deployment and release cycles.

• Major Cost Reduction: Through resource optimization and adoption of a pay-as-you-go model, the client achieved a 35% reduction in infrastructure costs.

• Enhanced Scalability & Capacity: The new infrastructure successfully increased system capacity by 500%, enabling effortless handling of peak user demand without performance degradation.

• Drastic Availability Improvement: The migration to Cloud SQL ensured continuous uptime with automatic failover, eliminating single points of failure.

• Reduced Maintenance Overhead: Routine database maintenance (patching, backups, version upgrades) is now handled automatically by GCP, allowing the operations team to focus on strategic improvements.

• Strengthened Security: Security was hardened with IAM-based access control, private networking, SSL-encrypted connections, and integrated data encryption at rest and in transit.

Key Takeaways

• The dump and restore method proved efficient for medium-sized databases (250 GB) when downtime was scheduled.

• Migrating to GCP Cloud SQL significantly reduces the management overhead while improving reliability.

• Building an automated cloud foundation supports faster innovation and enables predictable scaling.

Conclusion

The Girnar Newtel Cloud Transformation Project (CloudLeap) successfully transitioned the company from a fragmented, legacy environment to a modern, automated cloud infrastructure. By adopting Google Cloud, Girnar Newtel achieved faster deployment, improved scalability, enhanced cost efficiency, and a stronger security posture - all while ensuring uninterrupted business operations. This transformation positions Girnar Newtel to scale innovation with speed and reliability.