Industry Giant Quickly Transforms Storage Service With Powerful, Flexible OpenStack Management Layer
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Mirantis OpenStack
- Cisco ASR routers
- Nexus 1000 switches
- Terraform tool
Tech Stack
- OpenStack
- Cisco Networking
- Terraform
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Product Research & Development
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
EMC Corporation is a global leader in foundational technologies that allow businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data. Founded in 1979, the company has over 70,000 employees in 86 countries. EMC is helping thousands of customers transform operations, deliver IT as a service, and embrace cloud computing. For companies with massively scalable object storage needs that don’t want to build and own infrastructure, EMC is also providing high performance, scalable cloud services. With over one Exabyte of capacity in locations around the world, businesses with expanding IOT, social, and mobile operations can now turn to EMC for mission critical object storage as a service.
The Challenge
EMC Corporation, a leader in foundational technologies for data storage, management, protection, and analysis, was facing challenges with its cloud management layer. The company's massively scalable storage service required a powerful management layer to provision, monitor, and manage cloud resources and transactions. However, the initial management layer's manual processes were demanding excessive staff resources due to recent customer growth. The company needed a new cloud management solution that could handle high availability, performance, and scalability. The solution also needed to be easy-to-use and highly secure. In addition, the new management layer would also be the foundation for two additional cloud services: public compute as a service coupled with the object storage service, and private cloud compute resources for EMC’s internal software development staff.
The Solution
EMC turned to OpenStack for a solution to their cloud management layer challenges. They conducted a small pilot using an OpenStack distribution, reference architecture, and installation tool from the Mirantis website, achieving a working pilot in just two days. They then adapted the Mirantis reference architecture to meet EMC’s unique requirements, including the addition of Cisco ASR routers and Nexus 1000 switches for virtual private network tunneling from end-points to the cloud management layer, and the Terraform tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. EMC also tapped Mirantis for a design review and OpenStack training. With a newly defined architecture, the Cloud Operations team was ready for production deployment of 18 compute nodes in each of its eight cloud locations. In November 2015, the team deployed the new cloud management layer and met its aggressive launch deadline.
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