Leading Credit Card Company Taps OpenStack to Speed Time-to-Market and Lower Platform Costs
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Mirantis OpenStack
- PLUMgrid
- Asgard cloud management platform
技术栈
- OpenStack
- Software Defined Networking
- Cloud Management Platform
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 私有云
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云中间件与微服务
适用行业
- 金融与保险
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
关于客户
The customer is a leading credit card company that has formed a new technology-driven business unit to build a modern payment platform and expand its customer reach. This unit is responsible for creating new sources of revenue through banking alternative services and prepaid cards with branded and co-branded offerings. The unit's success is largely driven by its sophisticated infrastructure and fast-paced software development. As the prepaid debit card expanded and added online and mobile features, the division became increasingly reliant on internally developed software applications and on-premise infrastructure. The platform infrastructure to support the mobile and web-centric business spans multiple data centers and technologies.
挑战
The technology-driven business unit of a leading credit card company was flourishing in its early years, successfully reaching consumers with no previous access to traditional banking services. However, as the prepaid debit card expanded and added online and mobile features, the division became increasingly reliant on internally developed software applications and on-premise infrastructure. By early 2014, the platform infrastructure to support the mobile and web-centric business spanned multiple data centers and technologies. Advanced server, storage, and networking solutions adequately supported application growth, however, complex processes to provision and manage infrastructure began to constrain developer agility and slow release cycles. A principal concern was the two-week period to provision software development platforms. A second challenge was the deviation of environments between development, test, and production systems. Lastly, infrastructure capital and operating expenses continued to grow.
解决方案
The company decided to rethink the division’s platform architecture and development processes. They needed an engineering transformation to simplify and automate operations, speed time-to-market, and reign in costs. After conducting market research, the team found that OpenStack private cloud solutions closely matched their needs. They built a demo to show value to stakeholders and incorporated additional feedback into their plans. In June 2014, the Director hired a staff of four into a new Cloud Operations group and contacted Mirantis for options to achieve their private cloud goals. The Cloud Operations team launched a larger, highly available test bed using the Mirantis Fuel deployment and management tool, and leveraged PLUMgrid for software defined networking. They added the Asgard open-source cloud management platform from Netflix to enable self-service provisioning of compute resources, development of cloud ready applications, and auto-scaling of infrastructure.
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