How Nordic Aviation Capital A/S made the transition from a hybrid cloud infrastructure (IaaS) to a pure/native cloud (PaaS/SaaS). As one of the first companies to adopt both Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure in Denmark. We will talk about the bold vision to GO ALL Cloud, the impact on the business and IT department, challenges along the journey, touch a bit on Capex vs. Opex (Cost) and explain which approaches and technologies that was implemented to support the business.

1. Customer Story: Nordic Aviation Capital
- The journey from Microsoft hybrid cloud to Microsoft native cloud

2. Peter Selch Dahl
Cloud Architect, Azure MVP
Mads Krog-Jensen
Head of IT at Nordic Aviation Capital

3. • Introduction to Nordic Aviation Capital.
• Before going cloud native with Microsoft Azure.
• High-level view of the old setup
• How was the user experience.
• The vision behind the move.
• After the completed transition to Microsoft Azure.
• New cloud services used.
• End-user satisfaction.
• Lessons learned.
• Shift in IT focus.
• Capex vs. Opex (Pay-As-You-Go vs. Infrastructure).
• Focus on innovation.
• New employees with focus on business.
• Continuous adoption.
• Q/A
• Raffle / Lottery (LEGO Star Wars)
From hybrid to the cloud native

4. Strictly Private and Confidential
Nordic Aviation Capital
Company Presentation
March 2018

5. 5
Historic milestones
NAC was founded in
Skive, Denmark by
aviation entrepreneur
Martin Møller
NAC's HQ moved to
Billund, and a new office
opened in Ireland
NAC acquired 39 ATR
72’s from American
Airlines in the company's
largest portfolio
acquisition from an
airline – to date
NACs asset base
reaches US$1 billion,
fleet reaches 150+
aircraft
Historic $2.1bn+ order of
90 ATR aircraft placed at
the Paris Airshow. This
was the largest new
order purchase
agreement signed by
NAC to date
Martin Møller partnered
with EQT and KIRKBI
NAC purchased Aldus and
Jetscape and fleet reached
350+ aircraft
1990 2004 2008 2010
2013 2015 2016
NAC signed a firm order for 10
new ATR 72-600s, plus options
for another 10 additional
aircraft. This was the first new
order purchase agreement to
be signed by NAC
2011
2017
Assigned a BBB+
investment grade credit
rating by Kroll Bond Rating
Agency
2015/16
NAC agrees to purchase
aircraft portfolios from
ALC comprising 25 ATR
42/72-600 and 25
Embraer 175/190 aircraft

6. NAC at a glance
6
We are the world’s largest regional aircraft leasing company
Global Leader in
Regional Aircraft
Leasing and Financing.
Focus on larger
regional aircraft (70-130
seat segment)
425 70+
70 customers in 47
countries. Global
presence and diversified
client base
21years
Long track record of
consistent and profitable
growth. Consistently
achieve high levels of
profitability and ROE
BBB+
Investment Grade
Rating by Kroll Rating
Agency
Value of owned aircraft.
Leading Lessor with
ATR, Bombardier and
Embraer
5.8bn
Employees Globally
250+

7. 7Note: Data as of March 2018
A global organization located
close to the customers
Business area BLL LIM FLL SIN TOR Tota
l
Executive management 3 2 5
Marketing 2 18 3 5 3 31
Transaction execution &
management
27 39 7 6 5 84
Finance & treasury 20 22 2 4 0 48
Global Funding 7 0 0 0 0 7
Other support functions 32 3 2 0 0 37
Total number of employees 91 84 14 15 8 212
• NAC has the largest and most
experienced marketing team in the sector
• The majority of the team has between 10
and 20 years of experience marketing
regional aircraft
• Best technical capabilities in the regional
aircraft space
• Local deal teams in all major time-zones
empowered to close transactions
• Consistent delivery of high quality fleet
solutions tailored to meet individual clients
specific needs
• Global presence and scale with all
leasing functions in-house
• Scalable platform capable of supporting
significant growth
• Robust credit and operator screening and
monitoring process
NAC Offices
Fort Lauderdale, USA
Billund, DenmarkToronto, Canada
Limerick, Ireland Singapore

8. 8Note: Data as of March 2018
A growing global customer base 2014: 33 lessees in 23 countries
2016: 67 lessees in 45 countries
2018: 70 lessees in 47 countries

9. 9Note: Data as of March 2018
A growing global customer base 2014: 33 lessees in 23 countries
2016: 67 lessees in 45 countries
2018: 70 lessees in 47 countries
North
America
Central /
South
America
Africa / Middle
East
Asia
Australi
a
Europe

10. Our Fleet
NAC has 425 owned and managed aircraft
10
ATR 42 32
aircraft
Dash 8 88
aircraft
E170/175 26
aircraft
E190/195 104
aircraft
ATR 72 145
aircraft
CRJ900/10000 23
aircraft
CS300 7
aircraft

11. Azure Hybrid infrastructure at NAC before transition
Hyper-V High-Availability & Resiliency
Primary site
DirectAccess virtual machine
Service Manager virtual
machine
Exchange virtual machine
Shamrock virtual machine
Exchange
replica
virtual
machine
Shamrock
replica
virtual
machine
Replicate over
LAN link
SAN
Send/receive
replica traffic
SAN
R1 R2
P1 P2
Replica site
Nordic Aviation Capital was one of the first companies in Denmark to establish a Microsoft hybrid cloud setup
between the datacenter in Billund, Jutland in the summer of 2014. The goal was to bring the servers closer to the
end-users and reduce latency.
• Running a classic Microsoft Windows 2012 R2
Hyper-V HA setup
• Using System Center 2012 R2:
• Service Manager
• Configuration Manager
• Operations Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager
• Microsoft DirectAccess Multi-site setup
• Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS-R)
• Microsoft SQL servers
• Applications servers
More than 70+ servers in Azure & On-prem

12. Before the cloud native transition to Microsoft
Nordic Aviation Capital was one of the first companies in Denmark to establish a Microsoft hybrid cloud setup
between the datacenter in Billund, Jutland in the summer of 2014. The goal was to bring the servers closer to the
end-users and reduce latency.
Microsoft case story
Azure Datacenters used in hybrid:
• East US
• North Europe
• South East Asia
Main datacenter in Billund, Jutland

13. Before the cloud native transition to Microsoft
Nordic Aviation Capital global IT is connected by using Cisco Route-Based routing with Microsoft Azure backbone for
routing of traffic between the different regions in a mesh topology.

15. The grant vision behind the move….

16. After the completed transition to Microsoft Azure
Some of the SaaS applications used today.

17. After the completed transition to Microsoft Azure
Billund Toronto Ireland Fort Lauderdale SingaporeOpen AP / Roaming
Azure AD DS
(Legacy services)
ShamrockLaserNet OCR
3.Party SaaS
(Printix, PeopleHR, etc.)
Azure Active Directory / Azure Conditional Access
Simplified network design, distributed cloud services and a lot of happy users.

18. After the completed transition to Microsoft Azure
Azure Conditional Access for Azure Active Directory

19. After the completed transition to Microsoft Azure
Azure subscriptions
Office365
Our apps
Partner apps
Application
gallery
Account created and
managed in Azure
AD
Azure AD joined
Windows 10 device
Sign-in with
Azure AD identity
Azure AD Joined devices

20. Active Directory domain joined devices.
We started the journey in November 2017 with 250+ devices
February Monday this week

21. Azure Active Directory Cloud Only Identity
Switching from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory Cloud-only identity.
Set-MsolDirSyncEnabled -EnableDirSync $true
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/turn-off-directory-synchronization-for-office-365-ee5f861e-bd48-4267-83d1-a4ead4b4a00d

22. Migration of legacy applications
This slide shows the legacy applications that is left after the migration.
…
NAC’s workloads/apps in Azure IaaS
Virtual network
Managed domain available
in your NAC VNet.
Automatic background sync
to your managed domain
C5
RDS
(HTML5)
Lasernet

23. Migration of legacy applications
This slide shows the legacy applications that is left after the migration.

24. After the transition to Native Cloud
FOUR IaaS servers remaining in Azure

26. A shift in IT focus…..New employees: Adopt to change

27. A shift in IT focus…..Improving business productivity

28. A shift in IT focus…..