Case Studies CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

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	CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Procurement
Use Cases	Fleet Management Inventory Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The state IT organization was struggling with centralizing a large number of virtualization resources that were spread across separately managed vCenter and XenServer clusters. VM sprawl was costing the state thousands of dollars a month in infrastructure and licensing charges, and delays in resource provisioning resulted in a sharp increase of public cloud-based shadow IT environments that put sensitive agency data and security at risk. Read More
About Customer	The customer in this case study is a centralized IT group responsible for the entire state’s IT needs in the United States. This group fields solutions responsible for internal capabilities, as well as public services. The organization has 300 employees and manages 600 VMs that are rapidly growing. The organization's technology stack includes VMware vCenter, Citrix XenServer, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and they are planning to implement Puppet for configuration management. The operating systems they use are RHEL, CentOS, and Windows. Read More
Solution	The state implemented CloudBolt to provide self-service IT to consumers, reduce VM sprawl, enable the selection of the best-of-breed configuration management platform, provide real-time accurate chargeback reports, and enable the IT organization to increase agility by adding new service offerings. CloudBolt’s ability to ingest information about all of the VMs running across the state enabled the IT team to identify high-cost VMs that were being under-utilized. Unneeded VMs were terminated, freeing underlying server resources and software licenses. Using CloudBolt to provide a self-service portal that automates the end-to-end provisioning and management of servers helped meet IT consumer’s need to receive on-demand access to servers. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Procurement

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Inventory Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The state IT organization was struggling with centralizing a large number of virtualization resources that were spread across separately managed vCenter and XenServer clusters. VM sprawl was costing the state thousands of dollars a month in infrastructure and licensing charges, and delays in resource provisioning resulted in a sharp increase of public cloud-based shadow IT environments that put sensitive agency data and security at risk.

About Customer

The customer in this case study is a centralized IT group responsible for the entire state’s IT needs in the United States. This group fields solutions responsible for internal capabilities, as well as public services. The organization has 300 employees and manages 600 VMs that are rapidly growing. The organization's technology stack includes VMware vCenter, Citrix XenServer, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and they are planning to implement Puppet for configuration management. The operating systems they use are RHEL, CentOS, and Windows.

Solution

The state implemented CloudBolt to provide self-service IT to consumers, reduce VM sprawl, enable the selection of the best-of-breed configuration management platform, provide real-time accurate chargeback reports, and enable the IT organization to increase agility by adding new service offerings. CloudBolt’s ability to ingest information about all of the VMs running across the state enabled the IT team to identify high-cost VMs that were being under-utilized. Unneeded VMs were terminated, freeing underlying server resources and software licenses. Using CloudBolt to provide a self-service portal that automates the end-to-end provisioning and management of servers helped meet IT consumer’s need to receive on-demand access to servers.

Impact #1	Reduced VM provisioning from 2 days to sub-10 minutes
Impact #2	Rapidly eliminated VM sprawl
Impact #3	Created an “IT vending machine” from existing virtualization environments

Impact #1

Reduced VM provisioning from 2 days to sub-10 minutes

Impact #2

Rapidly eliminated VM sprawl

Impact #3

Created an “IT vending machine” from existing virtualization environments

Benefit #1	Reduced VM provisioning from 2 days to sub-10 minutes
Benefit #2	Rapidly eliminated VM sprawl
Benefit #3	Created an “IT vending machine” from existing virtualization environments

Benefit #1

Reduced VM provisioning from 2 days to sub-10 minutes

Benefit #2

Rapidly eliminated VM sprawl

Benefit #3

Created an “IT vending machine” from existing virtualization environments

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CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

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