National Can Industries (NCI) is a leading Australian packaging manufacturer specialising in metal packaging solutions for food and industrial products. With multiple sites across the country, NCI supports a diverse customer base and relies on robust IT systems to maintain operational efficiency and meet compliance requirements.
NCI faced several obstacles that hindered its operational agility and long-term growth. Its legacy infrastructure, hosted in the CSX Datacentre, was expensive to maintain and lacked the flexibility required for expansion. Governance and compliance were also becoming increasingly difficult to manage, with identity, access, and resource allocation processes falling short of modern security standards. Additionally, provisioning new resources for projects was slow and complex, reducing the organisation’s responsiveness. Limited disaster recovery capabilities further exposed NCI to operational risks and potential downtime.
Oreta partnered with NCI to deliver a comprehensive Azure migration strategy executed in two phases:
Phase 1: CSX Workload Migration and Azure Instance Setup
The first phase focused on migrating CSX workloads to Azure IaaS and establishing the initial Azure environment. This began with a detailed assessment of existing workloads and dependencies, followed by a migration plan for virtual machines and critical applications. The team implemented core networking components, configured VNET peering, NSG rules, and firewall settings, and deployed Azure Load Balancer for high availability. This phase ensured that NCI’s workloads were securely transitioned to Azure with minimal disruption.
Phase 2: Platform Uplift and Well-Architected Alignment
After the migration, the second phase centred on uplifting the Azure environment to align with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. This included implementing a governance framework covering naming conventions, tagging standards, and resource group structures, integrating Azure Active Directory for secure identity and access management, and optimising compute resources. Best practices across the five pillars – cost optimisation, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security – were applied to ensure a resilient, scalable, and compliant platform.
The engagement concluded with comprehensive documentation and structured knowledge transfer to NCI’s ICT team, ensuring smooth adoption and operational readiness.
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