GROWTH FOR CSC. FORTUNE 150 SySTEMS INTEGRATOR DELIVERS CLOUD SOLUTIONS ... 150 company, with annual revenue of $16.2 billion, CSC had been operating 41 data centers and ... critical workloads and offers industry leading data protection solutions. Now ... President, Cloud Computing and Software ...
C lo ud s e rvi ce p rovider
Client Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Challenge Offer reliable “pay as you go” cloud services both on and off site
Solution Vblock Systems
Results Deliver complete cloud infrastructures in 10 weeks while increasing business pipeline 500 percent in 8 months
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VBLOCK DRIVES ENTERPRISE CLOUD GROWTH FOR CSC Fortune 150 systems integrator delivers cloud solutions optimized for business-critical enterprise applications.
Maintaining market leadership in the IT out-sourcing and cloud service business requires IT agility and an ability to innovate. As CSC saw growing demand for IT as a Service and “pay as you go” models, the company knew it would need to meet that demand with new cloud services built on a new IT environment. A Fortune 150 company, with annual revenue of $16.2 billion, CSC had been operating 41 data centers and providing both off-premise and on-premise solutions to companies worldwide. To launch its new portfolio of cloud and cyber security services, CSC needed reliable solutions from a company it could trust. CSC realized that being able to provision new capacity and bring customers onboard quickly would give them an important ‘market first’ advantage. However, they also knew that their cloud service customers would need a reliable infrastructure capable of handling high numbers of transactions and large amounts of data. Because the system would host SAP, Oracle, Exchange and other enterprise applications, they needed the highest levels of security and availability. CSC would be locating new service centers in several countries and realized that a standardized infrastructure would offer significant business benefit. The Vblock™ Systems offered rapid deployment and provisioning in a family of products that could scale as the business grew. The platform is optimized to deliver performance at scale for mission critical workloads and offers industry leading data protection solutions. Now, CSC relies on the Vblock System to provide trusted cloud services that deliver on the “as a service” promise to reduce customer risk and improve business agility.
The Challenge
the Vblock systems to provide CSC’s
CSC had been integrating multi-vendor
clients with superior performance,
infrastructures in-house to meet the
availability, data protection and
demanding SLAs of its clients’ hosted
scalability in the cloud. The Vblock
applications. While this business model
systems provide CSC’s clients with
worked well for traditional outsourcing,
elastic pools of computing and storage
it was becoming clear that it would not
optimized for enterprise, custom, and
a vendor. They stand
work for the new CloudCompute and
vertical applications running business-
alongside us in the field with
BizCloud business.
critical workloads.
unified pre-sales and post-
The cloud services value proposition
The Results
sales support, and work with
would include very rapid on-
With Vblock systems, CSC gains secure
us through every stage of
boarding of new customers, tailored
and predictable performance through
solution development. When
cloud solutions, and compliance
pre-engineered, modular infrastructures
our customers see our
with in-country data governance
that enable standardized processes
close partnership with VCE,
requirements, along with management
and operations. This provides CSC with
and automation capabilities that
faster development and deployment
would dramatically improve
of applications, improved utilization,
application operations.
and lower operational costs, along with
To accomplish this, CSC needed a new
substantial competitive advantages:
infrastructure—one that was purpose-
• Because Vblock systems are pre-
“VCE is much more than
it gives them confidence in our cloud offerings and makes us stronger competitively.” — Siki Giunta, Vice President, Cloud Computing and Software Services CSC
built for cloud deployments and would
integrated and pre-tested, CSC can roll
enable them to rapidly scale and
out complete cloud infrastructures in
provision new services to clients.
just 10 weeks, enabling them to attract
The Solution
new accounts and increase the new
After evaluating solutions from several
business pipeline by more than 500
competitors, CSC standardized on
percent in just eight months.
Vblock systems as the foundation of its CloudCompute and CSC BizCloud solutions. CloudCompute is a standard Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in all CSC cloud data centers and serves as the IaaS layer of CSC BizCloud. The ease with which Vblock system
• Because VCE systems are standardized, CSC can easily package additional software capabilities and expand its market to new geos through third party channels. • Vblock systems deliver the performance
capacity can be provisioned and
and capacity for CSC’s demanding
reclaimed ensures that this innovative
enterprise applications while meeting
private cloud solution can be rapidly
the cloud’s data residency and data
deployed on a customer’s premises
latency requirements.
and billed as a service.
• CSC can confidently offer competitive
The Vblock systems are uniquely
service-level agreements (SLAs)
capable of supporting highly
with full monetary recourse for its
virtualized mixed workload, multi-
cloud solutions.
tenant environments. From redundant controllers and integrated patch
• CSC now has the largest cloud footprint
release to industry-leading data
of any cloud provider with capabilities
protection products, Vblock systems
on 4 continents.
are designed to deliver the highest levels of availability.
Looking ahead, CSC is assured its Vblock systems will enable smooth,
Business-critical enterprise applications,
reliable and efficient growth for its
including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft
own business as well as its clients.
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