Published on 31-Aug-2011
Customer:
IBM
Industry:
Computer Services
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Cloud Computing
Overview
A global computer products, services and solutions company based in the United States, IBM operates in more than 170 countries and has approximately 400,000 employees. With thousands of business partners and computer products suppliers worldwide, IBM generates nearly USD95 billion in annual revenue. The company was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York.
Business need:
The IBM WebSphere® Application Server software test team sought to boost efficiency while reducing administration costs and improving product quality.
Solution:
The team used the IBM Workload Deployer appliance to create a private cloud that enables it to create and manage development and test environments for the entire organization.
Benefits:
- Increases administration efficiency by 16 times while helping save USD515,000
- Reduces deployment time by 89 percent, from three hours to just 20 minutes
- Increases hardware use from 6 percent to 60 percent
Case Study
A global computer products, services and solutions company based in the United States, IBM operates in more than 170 countries and has approximately 400,000 employees. With thousands of business partners and computer products suppliers worldwide, IBM generates nearly USD95 billion in annual revenue. The company was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York.
Challenge
The IBM WebSphere® Application Server software test team sought to boost efficiency while reducing administration costs and improving product quality. To accomplish these goals, the team needed a solution that would enable it to shorten its Agile software development processes and therefore shorten its product delivery times; improve the quality and availability of its development and test environments; and increase utilization rates of its existing hardware.
Solution
To address its needs, the WebSphere Application Server software test team used the IBM Workload Deployer appliance to create a private cloud. The cloud enables the IBM team to create and manage development and test environments quickly for the entire organization. The team initially began using the new solution to deploy WebSphere software testing topologies and later moved on to deploy complete performance environments including IBM WebSphere, IBM Rational® and IBM Tivoli® software. Before the new solution, a single IBM system administrator could adequately manage 1,000 cores of bare metal. Now, a system administrator can easily manage 16,000 cores.
Benefits
• Increases administration efficiency by 16 times while helping save USD515,000
• Reduces deployment time by 89 percent, from three hours to just 20 minutes
• Increases hardware use from 6 percent to 60 percent
For more information
To learn more about the IBM Workload Deployer appliance, contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit:
ibm.com/software/webservers/workload-deployer
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Software:
IBM Workload Deployer
Legal Information
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