Case Study: Tokyo University of Technology achieves resilient, secure, and cost-effective emergency communications with Microsoft Azure

University looks to the cloud for greater security, lower costs, and stability during a natural disaster

Tokyo University of Technology, a science and technology university in Japan, needed a more resilient, secure and easy-to-update emergency notification site and intranet. The existing emergency site was tied to the main website and used a complex CMS, preventing departments from posting timely updates during crises, while single-server setups and redundancy options raised cost and availability concerns—especially given the potential for sudden traffic surges in an emergency.

The university moved both sites to Microsoft Azure using KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure and WordPress (deployed from the Azure Marketplace with partner Prime Strategy), gaining multi-region resilience, fast WordPress performance, and autoscaling to handle traffic spikes cost-effectively. The result: consistently stable access (peaks of ~10,000 page views/month), much faster admin and page performance, intranet management time reduced by one-third, and stronger security through layered Nginx/IP/WordPress protections.

Tokyo University of Technology

Kentaro Matsumoto

Executive Office Operations Division