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	CloudBolt Eases Self-Service IT for Fortune 500 Retailer

CloudBolt Eases Self-Service IT for Fortune 500 Retailer

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Retail
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	The IT group at the Fortune 500 US-based retailer primarily services the e-commerce group, which is responsible for the web storefronts of all the corporate brands, and for a significant portion of the company’s revenue. To speed delivery of new and innovative capabilities, the e-commerce team needed a platform that would allow on-demand access to production and development/test resources, with high compliance to PCI and other standards. Initially, they experimented with a homegrown solution based on OpenStack, but this was rejected by the CIO because it failed to effectively take into account the needs of other lines of business. The potential for infrastructure fragmentation, extra costs, and large amounts of duplicated work caused this company to search for a better solution. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a Fortune 500 US-based retailer that sells a variety of household goods through a number of branded storefronts and websites. The company's IT group primarily services the e-commerce group, which is responsible for the web storefronts of all the corporate brands, and for a significant portion of the company’s revenue. The company has a fairly large amount of legacy infrastructure in the form of existing VMs, deployed applications, and other stand-alone physical server environments. The company has 25,000 employees and an annual revenue of $3.5B. Read More
Solution	CloudBolt's solution helped the company in several ways. It aligned the IT and e-commerce teams and unified management and access through UI and APIs. It enabled IT to customize offerings to different lines of business and ensured that deployed services met strict standards and configuration requirements. CloudBolt also provided IT with flexibility in technology choice, allowing them to reduce their dependence on single-vendor virtualization solutions, saving money, and reducing risk to the business. The company was able to retire their expensive legacy management deployment and use CloudBolt to create more accurate test environments. The e-commerce team was able to use the CloudBolt API to use production replica systems to perform build and functionality tests, which increased productivity, as well as code quality. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Retail

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

The IT group at the Fortune 500 US-based retailer primarily services the e-commerce group, which is responsible for the web storefronts of all the corporate brands, and for a significant portion of the company’s revenue. To speed delivery of new and innovative capabilities, the e-commerce team needed a platform that would allow on-demand access to production and development/test resources, with high compliance to PCI and other standards. Initially, they experimented with a homegrown solution based on OpenStack, but this was rejected by the CIO because it failed to effectively take into account the needs of other lines of business. The potential for infrastructure fragmentation, extra costs, and large amounts of duplicated work caused this company to search for a better solution.

About Customer

The customer is a Fortune 500 US-based retailer that sells a variety of household goods through a number of branded storefronts and websites. The company's IT group primarily services the e-commerce group, which is responsible for the web storefronts of all the corporate brands, and for a significant portion of the company’s revenue. The company has a fairly large amount of legacy infrastructure in the form of existing VMs, deployed applications, and other stand-alone physical server environments. The company has 25,000 employees and an annual revenue of $3.5B.

Solution

CloudBolt's solution helped the company in several ways. It aligned the IT and e-commerce teams and unified management and access through UI and APIs. It enabled IT to customize offerings to different lines of business and ensured that deployed services met strict standards and configuration requirements. CloudBolt also provided IT with flexibility in technology choice, allowing them to reduce their dependence on single-vendor virtualization solutions, saving money, and reducing risk to the business. The company was able to retire their expensive legacy management deployment and use CloudBolt to create more accurate test environments. The e-commerce team was able to use the CloudBolt API to use production replica systems to perform build and functionality tests, which increased productivity, as well as code quality.

Impact #1	Rapid time to value—up and running in less than a day
Impact #2	Easy installations, customizations, and upgrades means CloudBolt grows with them
Impact #3	Immediate delivery of test environments reduces time to deployment

Impact #1

Rapid time to value—up and running in less than a day

Impact #2

Easy installations, customizations, and upgrades means CloudBolt grows with them

Impact #3

Immediate delivery of test environments reduces time to deployment

Benefit #1	Reduced time to deployment by 50%

Benefit #1

Reduced time to deployment by 50%

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CloudBolt Eases Self-Service IT for Fortune 500 Retailer

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