One of the largest energy producers in the world, Total S.A. is a French multinational company whose businesses cover the entire oil and gas supply chain. Its global operations encompass everything from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading.To support all these operations, Total’s IT environment is running a wide variety of applications on-premises. Aside, the organization also has extensive public cloud and private cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure. In the cyclic energy industry, cloud technology gives Total the flexibility to support services for a limited amount of time, then move on to new projects.Total needed to provide consistent platform and management for all of the company’s sites, regardless of size. Some offices contain as few as three people, while others may support up to 1000 employees. The organization needed a strategic solution that would position the organization to respond to any need. The company was also seeking to dramatically minimize the size of its data center footprint as part of its environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Home Depot has a long and well-earned reputation as a technology leader. In 2015, the company decided to revolutionize its entire IT environment to enhance the performance and scalability of its infrastructure and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). “We used to try to cut costs by just upgrading to faster servers and more efficient storage,” noted Kevin Priest, Senior Director at The Home Depot. “We needed to find a better way to reduce TCO.”

One of the first Chinese brands to explore the overseas market successfully, Tsingtao Brewery has a rich heritage as an international corporation with global influence. Although the organization is proud of its history, its leaders understand the need to innovate to meet future needs in a challenging marketplace. As part of an ongoing effort to improve product quality, service, and management, and create more value for consumers, Tsingtao Brewery launched an initiative to upgrade its core business operations and support an intelligent new retail model. Digital transformation of its IT infrastructure is a cornerstone of the strategy, and Tsingtao Brewery needed an agile, scalable data center solution that would meet its strict technical and operational standards. 

Pay360 by Capita is a Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant provider offering a full range of telephone, online, and mobile payment services. Customers include central/local government organizations and private businesses including Transport for London, TV Licensing, and numerous local authorities, schools, and colleges.Demand for Pay360 services, however, was outstripping the capabilities of the company’s legacy 3-tier IT infrastructure which was proving inherently slow to scale, unreliable, and difficult to manage.These issues were further exacerbated by reliance on third parties to manage both the physical and virtual infrastructure. This hampered the ability of the technical team to resolve its availability problems more quickly, let alone identify bottlenecks and investigate other ways of enhancing service performance.A complete re-think of the Pay360 IT infrastructure was clearly required with the emphasis on scalability, performance, and ease of management, albeit with the added complication of having to meet the stringent security requirements of PCI compliance.