Manulife's Azure Journey from 2013 to 2016

The Ignite 2016 session Microsoft Azure networking: new network services, features and scenarios(slides 50-54) has a nice case study of Manulife's Azure Journey from 2013 to 2016. Manulife Financial (operating as John Hancock in the United States) is an international financial services group with 34,000 employees and 63,000 agents worldwide in operating divisions in Asia, Canada, and the United States.

Manulife choose to Modify and/or Modernize, not Lift and Shift to enable solutions which leverage key characteristics of the cloud i.e. On Demand Resources

Key numbers:
2013 2016
Subscriptions 2 46
Virtual Networks2 55
Azure Regions1 10
VPNs 2 0
ExpressRoutes 0 8
Virtual Machines 20+ 2000+

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