Financial Institution Modernizes IT Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure

A regional financial institution needed to modernize its aging infrastructure to support continued growth and strengthen its cybersecurity posture. Its legacy systems were increasingly difficult to maintain, costly to operate, and created operational risk at a time when the organization was looking to expand services and improve resilience.

Leadership sought to move away from managing physical infrastructure and instead establish a secure, scalable environment aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Modernization was also driven by the need to improve analytics capabilities, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and lay the groundwork for future strategic initiatives—including potential mergers and acquisitions.

With limited internal cloud expertise, the bank needed a trusted partner to guide the transition and support long-term modernization goals.

Lunavi led the organization through a structured Azure Adoption and Migration Engagement following the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).

The engagement began with an Azure Readiness Assessment and Adoption Workshop to define business goals, compliance requirements, and the architecture of a secure landing zone.

• Network segmentation and governance policies
• VPN connectivity and Azure Firewall
• Regulatory-aligned security configurations

Core workloads—including banking applications, Active Directory, file servers, and databases (Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL)—were migrated from two on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure. A Migration Accelerator phase ensured performance and compliance validation before full production cutover.

To enhance resiliency, Lunavi implemented Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for disaster recovery, integrated with Veeam for hybrid backup, immutable storage, and ransomware protection. Once the environment was fully operational, Lunavi transitioned support to Azure Managed Services, providing 24Å~7 monitoring, patching, cost optimization, and compliance oversight.

The financial institution now operates on a secure, compliant, and resilient cloud platform built for long-term growth.

Lunavi delivered measurable value by guiding the organization through every phase of its cloud transformation. In doing so, we helped a regulated financial institution modernize infrastructure, improve resiliency, and confidently navigate what’s next in IT.