IBM Case Studies Cxense ASA – Agilely delivers online services to customers worldwide with a SoftLayer hybrid cloud hosting solution

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Cxense ASA – Agilely delivers online services to customers worldwide with a SoftLayer hybrid cloud hosting solution

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Cxense ASA, a company that delivers a portfolio of online personalization services, was relying on a traditional hosting infrastructure with colocated resources. However, as the company expanded, it required a hosting platform with presence worldwide, including Japan. The challenge was to find a solution that could provide a global presence, improve agility, and reduce infrastructure provisioning time. Read More
About Customer	Cxense ASA is a company that provides online personalization services. They were using a traditional hosting infrastructure with colocated resources. As the company expanded, they needed a hosting platform with a global presence, including in Japan. They needed a solution that could provide them with the agility to deploy powerful bare metal servers on demand and reduce their infrastructure provisioning time from three months to less than a day. Read More
Solution	After evaluating competing solutions, including the Amazon Web Services platform, Cxense selected SoftLayer cloud hosting infrastructure. The business provisioned bare metal servers in SoftLayer data centers in Washington D.C. and Tokyo, Japan to create a hybrid hosting environment for its services. They anticipate extending their infrastructure to SoftLayer data centers in Europe. This solution allowed them to expand their global presence and improve their agility. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Cxense ASA, a company that delivers a portfolio of online personalization services, was relying on a traditional hosting infrastructure with colocated resources. However, as the company expanded, it required a hosting platform with presence worldwide, including Japan. The challenge was to find a solution that could provide a global presence, improve agility, and reduce infrastructure provisioning time.

About Customer

Cxense ASA is a company that provides online personalization services. They were using a traditional hosting infrastructure with colocated resources. As the company expanded, they needed a hosting platform with a global presence, including in Japan. They needed a solution that could provide them with the agility to deploy powerful bare metal servers on demand and reduce their infrastructure provisioning time from three months to less than a day.

Solution

After evaluating competing solutions, including the Amazon Web Services platform, Cxense selected SoftLayer cloud hosting infrastructure. The business provisioned bare metal servers in SoftLayer data centers in Washington D.C. and Tokyo, Japan to create a hybrid hosting environment for its services. They anticipate extending their infrastructure to SoftLayer data centers in Europe. This solution allowed them to expand their global presence and improve their agility.

Impact #1	Expands global presence with SoftLayer® cloud infrastructure hosted worldwide
Impact #2	Improves agility with powerful bare metal servers available to deploy on demand

Impact #1

Expands global presence with SoftLayer® cloud infrastructure hosted worldwide

Impact #2

Improves agility with powerful bare metal servers available to deploy on demand

Benefit #1	98% faster deployment with infrastructure provisioning reduced from three months to less than a day

Benefit #1

98% faster deployment with infrastructure provisioning reduced from three months to less than a day

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Cxense ASA – Agilely delivers online services to customers worldwide with a SoftLayer hybrid cloud hosting solution

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