Case Study: Equifax achieves rapid global expansion and faster regulatory compliance with Microsoft Azure

Global Information Solutions Provider Expands with Cloud Converged System

Equifax, a global information‑solutions company that maintains credit data on hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses, needed a way to expand into new countries quickly and affordably. Its legacy, US‑scale platforms were too costly and complex to replicate abroad, and strict data‑sovereignty and regulatory requirements meant Equifax needed a standardized, locally deployable infrastructure to get services up and running.

Equifax adopted the Microsoft Cloud Platform System powered by Dell — a pre‑integrated, on‑premises “datacenter in a box” built on Windows Server, System Center and Windows Azure Pack running on Dell hardware — to create private clouds that connect to Azure. The converged solution let Equifax deploy infrastructure in days or months instead of years, reduce costs, meet compliance faster, run mixed workloads, and free IT staff to focus on innovation while simplifying support.

Equifax

Brandon Holcomb

Vice President of Global Platform Services