CEVA

Telstra has been a long-term strategic partner to CEVA Logistics in Australia and New Zealand for more than 17 years. During this time, various solutions have existed to manage CEVA Logistics’ Australian data centre requirements for locally hosted applications. In early 2025, when the Pacific team needed to migrate from Broadcom ESXi to Microsoft Azure, they partnered with Telstra and Versent for a seamless transition.

Challenge

CEVA Logistics faced a critical decision regarding the renewal of its VMware estate with Broadcom after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. With limited time to make this business decision and complete the migration, they opted to move to an Azure VMware Solution. Telstra and Versent proposed this migration to address the increased compute costs associated with maintaining their current VMware solution. CEVA Logistics needed to keep their Australian Infrastructure cost base stable while retaining a familiar management interface for their IT support team. Additionally, a robust disaster recovery capability was essential to maintain CEVA Logistics’ data sovereignty within Australia, achieved by utilising the Azure Melbourne region and Azure Geo-Redundant storage.

CEVA Logistics faced extremely short time frames to complete the migration project, given the Broadcom contract renewal date of ten weeks from the project’s commencement. Additionally, the lack of a fully tested disaster recovery solution further compounded the challenges, emphasising the need for a comprehensive approach to ensure business continuity and operational resilience.

Solution

Telstra and Versent partnered closely with CEVA Logistics’ IT team in Australia and New Zealand to architect a strategic migration to Azure VMware Solution addressing rising compute costs while enabling a robust disaster recovery capability. The solution preserved CEVA Logistics’ existing cost base and operational familiarity, ensuring continuity for the infrastructure team. 120 virtual servers were successfully migrated within just eight weeks, delivering the project well ahead of the ten-week contractual deadline and reinforcing the confidence of the CEVA Logistics team in this transition.

We were impressed that this new disaster recovery system passed a whole-of-business operational test for CEVA Logistics in Australia and New Zealand.

Michael Keirs, IT Service Operations and Support Senior Manager, Australia & New Zealand,
CEVA Logistics

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Outcome

The migration was executed ahead of schedule, with both migration windows completed seamlessly and without disruption. Telstra and Versent’s delivery enabled CEVA Logistics to establish a proven and robust disaster recovery capability across its local ecosystem – validated through a successful full disaster recovery test of the new environment. This milestone marks a significant uplift in operational resilience and business continuity for CEVA Logistics.

Key details:

• 120 virtual machines migrated
• Two migration windows completed
• Ten hours total migration time

A highly collaborative, focused delivery team between Telstra, Versent, and CEVA Logistics ensured the project’s success. This project reinforces the importance of strategic partners, especially when working on the core concepts of business continuity and customer value.

What’s Next?

CEVA Logistics is advancing its cloud-first strategy by integrating the infrastructure of newly acquired businesses into Azure VMware Solution, whilst modernising its core business systems within the same platform to enhance scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.

CEVA Logistics was an exceptional partner throughout the engagement. Together we delivered a seamless migration of 120 virtual servers in just eight weeks, enabling full disaster recovery and reinforcing operational continuity. It was a standout result and a great partnership.

Nick Tomaras, Versent, Services Partner.

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