Case Study: Standard Life achieves next-generation agile IT infrastructure, predictable consumption-based costs and 99.982% availability with Cognizant

Strategic IT Transformation Programme Delivers NextGeneration Agile IT Infrastructure with Industry-Leading Resilience for Standard Life

Standard Life engaged Cognizant to modernize a near‑obsolescent IT estate and move from unpredictable capital spend to a consumption‑based model. The insurer needed faster time‑to‑market through agile, automated infrastructure, greater cost transparency at a business‑unit level, reduced future capital investment and a more energy‑efficient, resilient platform so internal IT could focus on innovation and customer engagement.

Cognizant led a vendor‑managed transformation to deploy a private IaaS cloud across new data centres, consolidate storage, and migrate 3,000 workloads (completed in a 3.5‑month migration window) with no business disruption. The result is a single, constantly ready infrastructure delivered as a service, industry‑leading 99.982% availability, granular pay‑per‑use cost reporting, lower capex and faster provisioning — positioning Standard Life for hybrid cloud adoption and improved operational resilience.

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