22-year billing archive migrated to Azure with zero compliance downtime
A tier-one national operator needed to retire a 22-year billing repository on proprietary end-of-life hardware. Legal discovery, customer service, and ComReg access required zero interruption during the migration. The system held 1.4 billion records with no documented schema.
Irish Guru reverse-engineered the undocumented schema, designed a three-stage validation pipeline (extract, validate, secure load), and ran parallel systems for 8 weeks before final cutover. All 1.4 billion records were migrated with full audit trails and ISO-compliant access schemas established across the decommissioned estate.
13 wks
Kickoff to final production cutover
58%
Faster regulatory query response time
€980K
Annual operational cost saving
0
Compliance or legal incidents during migration