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The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, was facing a significant challenge in enhancing the performance and scalability of its IT infrastructure while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The company's traditional approach of upgrading to faster servers and more efficient storage was no longer sufficient. The Home Depot needed a more innovative solution to reduce TCO and improve operational efficiency for its vast retail store and e-commerce business. The company was also looking for a way to consolidate its server, storage, and virtualization teams into a single operations group to optimize and manage the entire infrastructure stack from a single console. The challenge was to find a solution that would allow them to achieve these goals while also enabling them to quickly deploy new applications to internal users and customers.

Tsingtao Brewery, a 116-year-old Chinese brand with over 60 breweries across the country, faced the challenge of maintaining its rich heritage while keeping pace with intensified market competition. The brewery's IT infrastructure, a critical platform for its operations, was in need of a more scalable, flexible solution to support new business initiatives. As part of an ongoing effort to improve product quality, service, management, and create more value for consumers, Tsingtao Brewery launched an initiative to upgrade its core business operations and support an intelligent new retail model. The digital transformation of its IT infrastructure was a cornerstone of this strategy. The brewery needed an agile, scalable data center solution that would meet its strict technical and operational standards.

Total S.A., a French multinational energy company, is one of the largest energy producers in the world. Its operations span the entire oil and gas supply chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading. To support these operations, Total’s IT environment runs a wide variety of applications on premises, as well as extensive public and private cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure. The company needed a consistent platform and management for all of its sites, regardless of size. Some offices contain as few as three people, while others may support up to 1000 employees. The organization needed a strategic solution that would position the organization to respond to any need. The company was also seeking to dramatically minimize the size of its data center footprint as part of its environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Pay360 by Capita, a major payment services provider, was facing challenges with its outsourced legacy infrastructure. The company's ability to deliver responsive, rapidly scalable, and highly available services was compromised due to the limitations of its existing IT infrastructure. The legacy 3-tier IT infrastructure was slow to scale, unreliable, and difficult to manage, which was affecting the company's ability to handle growing workloads, attract new customers, and exploit new cloud technologies. The situation was further complicated by the company's reliance on third parties to manage both the physical and virtual infrastructure, which hampered the technical team's ability to resolve availability problems quickly and identify bottlenecks. The company also experienced a major outage in 2017, which took them offline for over a day. A complete re-think of the Pay360 IT infrastructure was required, with a focus on scalability, performance, and ease of management, while also meeting the stringent security requirements of PCI compliance.