Case Study: Puebla State Government achieves secure cloud storage, rapid service delivery and 60% infrastructure savings with Microsoft Azure

Puebla State Government stores sensitive data in Cloud, enabling use of open source

The Puebla State Government’s Ministry of Finance and Administration set out to modernize its citizen-facing portals and optimize IT resources while keeping services highly available and secure. The challenge was to consolidate a mix of open source, legacy and commercial systems (.NET, Java, Oracle, Linux, MySQL), maintain 24/7 uptime for critical services, and overcome internal concerns about storing sensitive government data in the cloud.

The ministry deployed a hybrid Microsoft Azure solution (with StorSimple and partner support), migrating roughly 70% of legacy management systems and running about 60 applications in Azure. The move cut infrastructure investment by ~60%, reduced environment configuration time up to 30%, shrank response times from weeks to about 40–50 minutes, improved staff productivity and transparency, and positioned Puebla as a model for other public agencies.

Puebla State Government

Iván Rojas Herrera

Technological Infrastructure and Support Director