Glasstire Case Study: Moving to a Secure Cloud Environment with iland
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- iland’s cloud environment
- VMware vCloud
Tech Stack
- Debian (Linux OS)
- VMware
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Glasstire is a small, not-for-profit company that offers information, services, and social media to the art community. Its website provides information and logistics about art shows, artists, collections, and other art-related activities. The site serves up thousands of pages and attracts hundreds of visitors each day. Glasstire was already outsourcing the development, system administration, and operation of its website, so the use of a hosted cloud infrastructure was not a foreign business concept. The company is based in Houston, Texas.
The Challenge
Glasstire, a small, not-for-profit company offering information, services and social media to the art community, had been hosting its website with a small provider for years. However, the organization had experienced numerous performance issues that caused the site to go down, along with other ongoing availability issues. The security of the site was also inadequate, as it was hacked into and infused with a Trojan spam generator and numerous illicit redirects. The hacking was so invasive that the entire site had to be rebuilt. The new website developer wanted to run the new site on a Debian (Linux OS). Glasstire also wanted the ability to grow over time and handle increasing traffic as well as add new services such as a dedicated email service. Finally, as a result of the company’s previous issues, it wanted a vendor that would provide remote management capabilities and have a local datacenter so that support and dialog could be done live if needed.
The Solution
Glasstire migrated and rebuilt its website at iland. It is currently running on a single machine but working towards multiple VMs including load balancing and redundant data backup. With VMware vCloud™, Glasstire is able to create and upload server images whenever it needs to. This allows it more flexibility to react to new art information and make both structure and content changes to the website. The company's next project is dynamic VMs for load-balancing and an email service for its members.
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