How Ancestry Transformed Their Business with Veracity Solutions and the Cloud

Overview
Achieving Business Agility
Ancestry is the largest genealogy company in the world. In their efforts to grow, they sought a way to improve their development, infrastructure, and achieve business agility through the cloud.
Situation
The Need for Elastic Infrastructure
Ancestry began with a single data center that was rigid and inflexible, making it difficult to automate, monitor systems, and improve security. Relying on a single data center also did not provide a high availability configuration.
At the time, the data center infrastructure was only using ~25% of its overall capacity meaning that significant cost reduction could be achieved by moving to a more elastic infrastructure, i.e. the public cloud.
While revenue costs remained steady, an increase in reliability, innovation, and experimentation for a low-cost investment made cloud adoption a huge business agility win.
Resolution
Achieving an All-In Migration
With the help of Veracity CEO, John Esser, and automated system configuration (which had been achieved during a previous DevOps adoption) Ancestry was able to accelerate their migration to the cloud. They did this by first implementing a disaster recovery system in the cloud, followed by a complete “all-in” migration which resulted in a highly available, multi-datacenter configuration.
While revenue costs remained steady, an increase in reliability, innovation, and experimentation all for a low-cost investment made cloud adoption a huge business agility win.