Case Study: Zurich North America strengthens resilience and modernizes IT with Microsoft Azure

Zurich North America modernizes with Microsoft Azure, reducing its datacenter footprint by 97%

Zurich North America, a US and Canada-based commercial insurer, faced rising customer expectations and operational risks from its aging on-premises infrastructure. To modernize its environment and strengthen resilience, the customer partnered with Microsoft Corporation to migrate its business-critical applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

The solution implemented by Microsoft involved migrating 160 applications to Azure services, including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure SQL. This resulted in a 97% reduction in the customer's datacenter footprint and improved performance for critical workloads. The migration was completed five months ahead of schedule, and Microsoft helped Zurich North America avoid an estimated $20 million in capital investment while establishing a resilient foundation for future innovation.

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