Case Study: Hokkaido Electric Power Company achieves resilient website delivery and a cloud-first IT strategy with Microsoft Corporation

After major earthquake, Hokkaido Electric Power moves its website to the cloud, inspires cloud-first IT strategy

Hokkaido Electric Power Company, the sole power supplier in Hokkaido, faced a major challenge after a 2018 earthquake drove website traffic to 50–100 times normal levels and exposed the risk that local datacenter and emergency-power systems could fail during future disasters. Microsoft Corporation, using Azure, Azure App Service, and Microsoft Teams, helped the utility rapidly shift its information delivery website to the cloud to improve resilience and continuity.

Microsoft Corporation guided the migration to Azure, enabling Hokkaido Electric Power Company to move data the next day, build an Azure App Service environment the same night, and switch CDN delivery shortly after without interruption. The result was a faster, disaster-resistant information platform and a broader cloud-first IT strategy, with the company planning to expand public cloud use and Microsoft Teams across the organization.

Hokkaido Electric Power Company

Shigeru Yonaga

Operating Officer and General Manager of Information Systems & Telecommunications Department