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Benesse fully migrates its data center to the cloud


SoftBank Technology Corp.

SoftBank Technology Corp. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President and Representative Director: Shinichi Ata, hereinafter referred to as SBT) is a subsidiary of Benesse Corporation (location: Kita-ku, Okayama City, Representative Director and President: Hitoshi Kobayashi, hereinafter referred to as Benesse). , built a secure common infrastructure on Microsoft Azure for migrating more than 2,500 virtual servers on on-premises (server-based) servers, and operates and monitors web application and server security systems 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We are pleased to announce that we have introduced a managed security service.

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Background of introduction

Benesse aims to provide education tailored to each individual, and as part of this effort, we are focusing on the digitalization of our products and services. We are also promoting digitization at the organizational level, such as by integrating planning and development departments for products and services.As we accelerate the speed of development and business, we are also increasing the number of in-house data We have decided to migrate from the center's on-premises servers to the public cloud, which makes it easy to quickly build environments and introduce new technology.

When choosing a public cloud, we take into account the use of the cloud at a company-wide level, the management of the thousands of on-premises virtual servers and web systems we have been operating, and the support system, costs, security, and privacy protection. We adopted Microsoft Azure because of our commitment to

When building Microsoft Azure, SBT collaborated with Benesse to create a security policy, built a common infrastructure and authentication system in accordance with the policy, and implemented standard security measures equivalent to on-premises environments. We have also introduced a managed security service that operates and monitors these cloud servers and web application security systems 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We are currently developing guidelines for migrating existing applications from on-premises to the cloud, and are providing support for migrating applications that were previously running on-premises.

About Benesse Corporation

Benesse Corporation is part of the Benesse Group, which is involved in domestic education, overseas business, nursing care/childcare, and language learning, with a focus on correspondence courses such as Shinkenzemi and Kodomo Challenge, cram schools, and business for schools. doing. Currently, in anticipation of educational reform in 2020, we are focusing on utilizing IT in order to provide products and services tailored to each individual.