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Niu Solutions Leverages Morpheus for Cloud Orchestration

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Niu Solutions, a UK-based managed service provider, was seeking a cloud orchestration solution that could accelerate deployments while maintaining the quality of solutions provided. The company wanted to balance the benefits of IT automation with the skills of its technical team. Many of the orchestration solutions they evaluated were oriented toward vendor lock-in rather than taking a cloud-agnostic approach. Another major driving force behind Niu’s requirement was the deepening issue of ‘shadow IT’ being felt by customers. Shadow IT creates huge budgetary, security and compliance problems, particularly troublesome in highly-regulated industries like financial services and retail. Niu’s long-term view was to enable customers with more dynamic, self-serve capabilities, and bring the benefits of easy deployment but without the associated risks. Read More
About Customer	Niu Solutions is a UK-headquartered managed service provider that enables established and startup businesses to drive digital transformation. The company specialises in highly-regulated, high velocity markets such as financial services and retail, where strong IT governance and true IT agility are crucial to meeting business objectives. To successfully deliver unique, sector-leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service deployments to each of its major clients, Niu employs a highly skilled in-house technical team and uses automated configuration management and provisioning tools such as Chef. These capabilities are applied to Niu’s hybrid cloud environment incorporating virtualised on-premise infrastructure and public cloud resources such as Azure and Bluemix. Read More
Solution	Niu Solutions decided to procure Morpheus, a cloud orchestration solution, based on a specific customer opportunity. Morpheus was able to provide comprehensive visibility and control of all applications, servers, clouds and stack components through a single pane of glass. This enabled Niu to shift the focus of its most technically qualified members to template development, thereby accelerating time to delivery and time to revenue. Morpheus also provided strong, straightforward integration with Chef, which gave Niu confidence in achieving a good ROI. The deployment of Morpheus brought pre-defined templates for infrastructure design to the point where Niu soon plans to allow customers to self-serve through the platform, safe in the knowledge that service provisioning will be in line with needs, budgets and governance standards. 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

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Niu Solutions, a UK-based managed service provider, was seeking a cloud orchestration solution that could accelerate deployments while maintaining the quality of solutions provided. The company wanted to balance the benefits of IT automation with the skills of its technical team. Many of the orchestration solutions they evaluated were oriented toward vendor lock-in rather than taking a cloud-agnostic approach. Another major driving force behind Niu’s requirement was the deepening issue of ‘shadow IT’ being felt by customers. Shadow IT creates huge budgetary, security and compliance problems, particularly troublesome in highly-regulated industries like financial services and retail. Niu’s long-term view was to enable customers with more dynamic, self-serve capabilities, and bring the benefits of easy deployment but without the associated risks.

About Customer

Niu Solutions is a UK-headquartered managed service provider that enables established and startup businesses to drive digital transformation. The company specialises in highly-regulated, high velocity markets such as financial services and retail, where strong IT governance and true IT agility are crucial to meeting business objectives. To successfully deliver unique, sector-leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service deployments to each of its major clients, Niu employs a highly skilled in-house technical team and uses automated configuration management and provisioning tools such as Chef. These capabilities are applied to Niu’s hybrid cloud environment incorporating virtualised on-premise infrastructure and public cloud resources such as Azure and Bluemix.

Solution

Niu Solutions decided to procure Morpheus, a cloud orchestration solution, based on a specific customer opportunity. Morpheus was able to provide comprehensive visibility and control of all applications, servers, clouds and stack components through a single pane of glass. This enabled Niu to shift the focus of its most technically qualified members to template development, thereby accelerating time to delivery and time to revenue. Morpheus also provided strong, straightforward integration with Chef, which gave Niu confidence in achieving a good ROI. The deployment of Morpheus brought pre-defined templates for infrastructure design to the point where Niu soon plans to allow customers to self-serve through the platform, safe in the knowledge that service provisioning will be in line with needs, budgets and governance standards.

Impact #1	Niu has achieved comprehensive visibility and control of all applications, servers, clouds and stack components through a single pane of glass.
Impact #2	The move has immediately equipped Niu to address its ‘shift left’ objective, enabling the most technically qualified members of its team to focus on template development, thereby accelerating time to delivery and time to revenue.
Impact #3	Niu is able to satisfy multi-cloud scaling demands by automatically bursting from on-prem into public clouds using Morpheus’ built in scaling features.

Impact #1

Niu has achieved comprehensive visibility and control of all applications, servers, clouds and stack components through a single pane of glass.

Impact #2

The move has immediately equipped Niu to address its ‘shift left’ objective, enabling the most technically qualified members of its team to focus on template development, thereby accelerating time to delivery and time to revenue.

Impact #3

Niu is able to satisfy multi-cloud scaling demands by automatically bursting from on-prem into public clouds using Morpheus’ built in scaling features.

Benefit #1	Accelerated time to delivery and time to revenue.
Benefit #2	Improved resource utilisation and cost management.

Benefit #1

Accelerated time to delivery and time to revenue.

Benefit #2

Improved resource utilisation and cost management.

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Niu Solutions Leverages Morpheus for Cloud Orchestration

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