Case Study: Infosys achieves a responsive, geo-redundant, scalable corporate website and 60% faster performance with Microsoft Azure

IT Firm Makes a Smart Infrastructure Choice, Moves Corporate Website to Public Cloud

Infosys, a global consulting and IT services firm with about 179,000 employees and US$8.7B in FY15 revenue, faced a legacy, desktop-only website built on SharePoint 2007 hosted across two on‑prem datacenters. The site was complex to maintain (separate authoring and production environments), didn’t support adaptive multi‑device experiences, had slow, error‑prone publishing workflows, and required costly hardware refreshes to meet peak loads.

Infosys migrated www.infosys.com to Microsoft Azure IaaS and upgraded to SharePoint 2013, implementing a geo‑redundant architecture with real‑time content replication, live content authoring, adaptive design for multiple device types, and enhanced security. The rollout delivered a ~60% performance improvement, cut time‑to‑publish by 50%, reduced upfront infrastructure costs by about US$1.5M, and enabled on‑demand scaling of VMs for peak traffic.

Infosys

Jitendra Sangharajka

AVP and Head Platform Services