Canon Foods is a Perth-based food manufacturer supplying products across Western Australia. The company’s IT infrastructure was built on a Microsoft Small Business Server that had reached end of life — creating security vulnerabilities, limiting collaboration, and making it impossible to scale without significant capital expenditure.
Epic IT executed a complete infrastructure replacement, moving Canon Foods from their end-of-life SBS environment to a modern Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platform. The result: a fully managed cloud environment with room to grow and no further server hardware investment.
Industry: Food Manufacturing | Services: Cloud Migration, Microsoft 365, Azure
Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) that had reached end of life
Canon Foods is a Perth-based food manufacturer supplying products across Western Australia. The company’s IT infrastructure was built on a Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) that had reached end of life — meaning no further security patches, no vendor support, and growing compatibility issues with modern business applications. Every day the aging server remained in production increased the risk of data loss, downtime, and security exposure.
As a manufacturing operation, Canon Foods couldn’t afford extended downtime during the migration. Production schedules, supply chain communications, and order management systems all needed to remain operational throughout the transition.
A modern Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platform
Epic IT executed a complete infrastructure replacement, moving Canon Foods from their end-of-life SBS environment to a modern Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platform:
1. SBS to Azure migration — Replaced the legacy Small Business Server with Azure cloud infrastructure, eliminating on-premise hardware and end-of-life risk
2. Microsoft 365 deployment — Migrated email, file storage, and collaboration tools to Microsoft 365 for modern, secure productivity
3. Thin client deployment — Rolled out thin client devices to reduce endpoint hardware costs and simplify device management across the manufacturing environment
4. Near-zero downtime cutover — Planned and executed the migration to minimise production disruption, completing the core transition with near-zero downtime to manufacturing operations
Growth without further capital expenditure on servers
Canon Foods moved from an unsupported, end-of-life server to a fully managed cloud environment — eliminating the security and reliability risks of their legacy infrastructure. The thin client approach reduced hardware costs and simplified ongoing device management, while the Azure platform provides the scalability to support the company’s growth without further capital expenditure on servers.
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