CASE STUDY: Tailspin Toys
Tailspin Toys is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 servers across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
Business Requirements: The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
You need to design a migration strategy for the legacy Windows Server 2012 applications. The solution must minimize operational overhead and maintain compliance while ensuring the applications remain supported.
Which compute solution should you recommend?
AZ-305 · Question 04 · Domain 2.1: Relational Data Storage
CASE STUDY: Tailspin Toys
Tailspin Toys is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 servers across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
Business Requirements: The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
Tailspin Toys has a 15 TB on-premises SQL Server database that supports their core ERP system. You need to migrate this database to Azure. The solution must support the 2-hour RTO requirement, minimize administrative overhead, and support databases larger than 10 TB.
Which data storage solution should you recommend?
Answer options:
Azure SQL Database Business Critical
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose
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