CloudBolt Manages Hybrid Cloud for Home Depot
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- CloudBolt
Tech Stack
- VMware
- OpenStack
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Puppet
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries
- Retail
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It operates 'The Home Depot stores', which sell building materials, home improvement supplies, and lawn and garden products. The company has an annual revenue of over $88 billion and employs over 385,000 people. Its headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia and it is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HD. Home Depot ranks 28th on the Fortune 500 list.
The Challenge
In 2014, Home Depot's IT team realized that they were spending an average of 1-2 weeks to provision VMs for their end users and had a growing shadow IT problem. They decided to evaluate cloud management platforms (including CloudBolt, VMWare’s vRA, Cliqr, CSC Matrix, and a couple of others) to see if one of these CMPs could help them address their challenges. After an exhaustive evaluation, they chose CloudBolt and told us that they were impressed by its simplicity, extensibility, elegance, and its low overhead to install, upgrade, and maintain.
The Solution
The first step in their IT transformation was to automate these builds using CloudBolt and greatly reduce the time to provision, from 1-2 weeks to < 20 minutes. After the IT team had used CloudBolt to fulfill requests for a few months, they decided they did not need to play the middle man anymore. They felt that the CloudBolt user interface made the process simple enough and had the guard rails they needed for the ~400 developers to use CloudBolt directly. Fast forward to 2016 and Home Depot is expanding from VMware into the public cloud (focusing on Azure and Google Cloud) and CloudBolt is catalyzing that transition.
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