IBM Case Studies Major manufacturer Reducing deployment times with secure, compliant and easily managed public cloud services

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Major manufacturer Reducing deployment times with secure, compliant and easily managed public cloud services

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Operating thousands of physical servers grew increasingly complicated for this company. At the same time, manual processes for procuring server space slowed app development, test and production. Read More
About Customer	This publicly held multinational manufacturer has annual revenue in the billions. It employs more than 100,000 people in dozens of manufacturing plants worldwide. Building on its history of innovation, the company now focuses on designing more energy efficient products. Read More
Solution	IBM® Cloud Brokerage Services provided this manufacturer with a catalog of vetted, quickly deployable public cloud offerings, pre-programmed with the necessary boot scripts, security protocols and management capabilities needed for isec compliance. The solution also clarified costs for each workload, enabling more accurate auditing and chargebacks. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Operating thousands of physical servers grew increasingly complicated for this company. At the same time, manual processes for procuring server space slowed app development, test and production.

About Customer

This publicly held multinational manufacturer has annual revenue in the billions. It employs more than 100,000 people in dozens of manufacturing plants worldwide. Building on its history of innovation, the company now focuses on designing more energy efficient products.

Solution

IBM® Cloud Brokerage Services provided this manufacturer with a catalog of vetted, quickly deployable public cloud offerings, pre-programmed with the necessary boot scripts, security protocols and management capabilities needed for isec compliance. The solution also clarified costs for each workload, enabling more accurate auditing and chargebacks.

Impact #1	Automates deployment with reusable design templates
Impact #2	Discovers assets to determine cost per workload, create financial reports, audit trails

Impact #1

Automates deployment with reusable design templates

Impact #2

Discovers assets to determine cost per workload, create financial reports, audit trails

Benefit #1	Reduces time to deploy computing environments from days to hours

Benefit #1

Reduces time to deploy computing environments from days to hours

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Major manufacturer Reducing deployment times with secure, compliant and easily managed public cloud services

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