Cognizant Case Studies Transformed IT Infrastructure Improves Business Agility

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Transformed IT Infrastructure Improves Business Agility

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	A global security, storage, and systems management software provider planned to demerge into two separate companies. To prepare, it undertook a major overhaul of its IT infrastructure and operations strategy. A key requirement: streamlining the Hosting Group, which handled compute, storage, and middleware operations. These functions had grown complex and had a wide geographic distribution. The company planned to bring them under closer in-house management. The company looked to increase its business agility so it could quickly and creatively respond to customer demands with improved internal collaboration and optimized go-to- market and IT service delivery capabilities. Modernizing IT functions, and making them more responsive, was critical to achieving these goals. Read More
About Customer	A global security, storage, and systems management software provider. Read More
Customer Name	Not Disclosed Read More
Solution	To ensure smooth operations performance as we executed the transformation, we turned to our proven transition methodology and continuous service improvement (CSI). Using it, we consolidated and rationalized operations while introducing automated and self-service provisioning features to speed service delivery. The company significantly reduced IT operations costs and increased IT capacity as we streamlined and stabilized these operations. This helped it tackle other projects, including improving legacy data center performance. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

A global security, storage, and systems management software provider planned to demerge into two separate companies. To prepare, it undertook a major overhaul of its IT infrastructure and operations strategy. A key requirement: streamlining the Hosting Group, which handled compute, storage, and middleware operations. These functions had grown complex and had a wide geographic distribution. The company planned to bring them under closer in-house management.

The company looked to increase its business agility so it could quickly and creatively respond to customer demands with improved internal collaboration and optimized go-to- market and IT service delivery capabilities. Modernizing IT functions, and making them more responsive, was critical to achieving these goals.

About Customer

A global security, storage, and systems management software provider.

Customer Name

Not Disclosed

Solution

To ensure smooth operations performance as we executed the transformation, we turned to our proven transition methodology and continuous service improvement (CSI). Using it, we consolidated and rationalized operations while introducing automated and self-service provisioning features to speed service delivery.

The company significantly reduced IT operations costs and increased IT capacity as we streamlined and stabilized these operations. This helped it tackle other projects, including improving legacy data center performance.

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Integration] Increased business agility and optimized go-to-market capabilities Simplified IT infrastructure and applications; accelerate provisioning and service delivery
Impact #2	[Data Management - Cyber Security] Improved security

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Integration]

Increased business agility and optimized go-to-market capabilities
Simplified IT infrastructure and applications; accelerate provisioning and service delivery

Impact #2

[Data Management - Cyber Security]

Improved security

Benefit #1	Reduced IT operations cost by more than 40%

Benefit #1

Reduced IT operations cost by more than 40%

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Transformed IT Infrastructure Improves Business Agility

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