Case Study: Ed Broking achieves rapid IT modernization and improved compliance with Navisite's Azure migration

Ed Broking Modernizes and Overcomes Compliance Challenges with Azure

Ed Broking, a London-based top-10 Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance broker and part of BGC Partners, faced aging VMware infrastructure, end-of-life hardware, limited IT staff, weak business continuity, difficult support for APAC offices, and new GDPR/FCA compliance requirements. The company sought a flexible, managed cloud platform to modernize applications, improve collaboration and regulatory controls, and free its small IT team to focus on business-critical work.

Navisite conducted a detailed Azure assessment and migration—using Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery, deploying a governed landing zone across two regions, VPN connectivity, micro-segmentation, and managed services—to move 120+ virtual servers and 50 TB of data (with 113 Windows Server IaaS VMs in production). The result: a 194% increase in Azure consumption in one year, stronger disaster recovery and compliance posture, improved remote collaboration and productivity, and freed IT capacity to prioritize application modernization and growth.

Ed Broking