Cloud Computing Company Lowers Downtime & Increases Profitability
Background
- >$10m start-up cloud computing company with data center locations in the US. Offering several advantages over other alternatives, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
- Looking for fully redundant data centers that allow SMBs the flexibility of unrestricted deployments.
- OpenStack is an open-source platform, which means you can use it without the licensing fees associated with proprietary solutions.
- Needed assistance troubleshooting errors and downtime scenarios that they were experiencing with a vendor that took shortcuts building out the existing architecture.
Our Approach
- Brought in open stack architects, evaluated the current state and developed the future states architecture to meet requirements for current customer base.
- Stood up new data center which allows the company to provide a stable platform for current customers while implementing the new architecture in existing data center locations for new customers.
Our Solution
- Reduce downtime and penalties for downtime issues
- Avoiding Vendor Lock-In: Using OpenStack, SMBs can avoid being tied to a single vendor's ecosystem.
- Significantly reduced costs, especially for large-scale deployments.
- Tooling & monitoring for system health made available to client base
