Case Study: HarperCollins Publishers UK achieves fast, secure cloud access with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

Publisher Delivers High-Speed Access to Cloud-Based Applications Using Dedicated Link

HarperCollins Publishers UK, a subsidiary of News Corp, faced the challenge of reducing IT costs and improving operational flexibility. To achieve this, they planned to migrate key business applications to the cloud but needed to ensure London-based employees would have fast, secure, and reliable access to these Azure-hosted resources from the Dublin datacenter.

Microsoft Corporation provided the solution with Azure ExpressRoute, which established a dedicated, high-speed connection via the Equinix Cloud Exchange. This implementation delivered excellent application performance with minimal latency. By moving to Microsoft Azure, HarperCollins transformed IT spending from a capital expense to an operational one, precisely aligning costs with business needs and eliminating the significant expense of maintaining overcapacity in their own datacenter.

HarperCollins Publishers UK

Jay Hunter

Head of Infrastructure and Enterprise Operations