Client Success: Cloud Migration

With new cloud infrastructure, Paramount Staffing is primed for growth – at a much lower monthly cost.

Paramount Staffing needed to establish a cost-effective, new infrastructure to enable the organization to grow rapidly. Paramount partnered with Ascend Technologies to orchestrate the move to the public cloud.

The Challenge

Mobilizing to deliver on a new owner’s growth expectations

Paramount Staffing was acquired by a French company as a platform for entry into and future growth in the United States. With its existing hosting contracts coming to an end, Paramount needed to establish a new technology environment, including infrastructure for hosting its primary staffing application. This critical application houses contractor and scheduling information for hundreds of employees, as well as vital historical records. More than a dozen locations – which have no onsite IT staff – require direct, secure, and seamless access to this and other business applications.

Paramount wanted a new infrastructure that...

• Would allow for scaling operations quickly, both through the acquisition and for future integration of other organizations
• Would be cost-effective
• Would provide continuity for the business, clients, and contractors

The Solution

Cloud environment assessment and migration

To define and orchestrate the migration, Paramount worked with the Ascend Technologies team, its managed services partner.

Ascend analyzed Paramount’s infrastructure from a cost and utilization perspective and recommended moving the primary staffing application from an onsite instance to the vendor’s SaaS offering to improve access to the latest releases and vendor support capabilities.

The project team used best-of-breed tooling to assist with migration. This enabled the company to migrate its Great Plains financial database in real-time, with no disruption to the financial systems.

Changes for Continued Growth

• Replacing the legacy Commvault backup solution with cloud back-ups and snapshots
• Cleaning up file permissions across the shared drive structure
• Streamlining security settings
• Deploying a virtual Cisco ASA and a virtual Meraki as the client VPN solution
• Forklifting the existing routing structure to the virtual network infrastructure

The Impact

Lower costs with greater growth potential

The migration took just weeks and has met all three of the organization's key objectives.

In addition to orchestrating a migration that was seamless for system users, Paramount also has reduced its monthly run costs by more than 60 percent. Furthermore, because Ascend followed platform best practices to validate its design, Paramount is confident that its new infrastructure can support growth plans and objectives.  

Team Ascend Is Here to Help

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In this incident, our team demonstrated its capability to manage crises effectively, which speaks to the benefits of our managed services. If you need IT managed services that you can rely on, reach out to talk to an expert!

“The Ascend team helped us navigate the technical transition following our acquisition. They didn’t just review our environment; they understood our business objectives. Our migration is changing how we operate, and we’re eager to leverage Ascend’s expertise as we continue to grow.”

— Tina Schubert, Paramount Staffing

The Bottom Line

• Lowered monthly run costs by more than 60%
• Reduced overall complexity
• Migrated infrastructure without interrupting the business
• Delivered a scalable solution that supports growth plans

PARAMOUNT STAFFING, ranked among the largest U.S. staffing firms,
provides logistics and industrial staffing services to more than 300 clients.