Niu Solutions Leverages Morpheus for Cloud Orchestration
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- Morpheus
- Azure
- Bluemix
- Chef
Tech Stack
- Cloud Orchestration
- Configuration Management
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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) - Hybrid Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud
Applicable Industries
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Niu Solutions is a UK-headquartered managed service provider that enables established and startup businesses to drive digital transformation. The company specialises in highly-regulated, high velocity markets such as financial services and retail, where strong IT governance and true IT agility are crucial to meeting business objectives. To successfully deliver unique, sector-leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service deployments to each of its major clients, Niu employs a highly skilled in-house technical team and uses automated configuration management and provisioning tools such as Chef. These capabilities are applied to Niu’s hybrid cloud environment incorporating virtualised on-premise infrastructure and public cloud resources such as Azure and Bluemix.
The Challenge
Niu Solutions, a UK-based managed service provider, was seeking a cloud orchestration solution that could accelerate deployments while maintaining the quality of solutions provided. The company wanted to balance the benefits of IT automation with the skills of its technical team. Many of the orchestration solutions they evaluated were oriented toward vendor lock-in rather than taking a cloud-agnostic approach. Another major driving force behind Niu’s requirement was the deepening issue of ‘shadow IT’ being felt by customers. Shadow IT creates huge budgetary, security and compliance problems, particularly troublesome in highly-regulated industries like financial services and retail. Niu’s long-term view was to enable customers with more dynamic, self-serve capabilities, and bring the benefits of easy deployment but without the associated risks.
The Solution
Niu Solutions decided to procure Morpheus, a cloud orchestration solution, based on a specific customer opportunity. Morpheus was able to provide comprehensive visibility and control of all applications, servers, clouds and stack components through a single pane of glass. This enabled Niu to shift the focus of its most technically qualified members to template development, thereby accelerating time to delivery and time to revenue. Morpheus also provided strong, straightforward integration with Chef, which gave Niu confidence in achieving a good ROI. The deployment of Morpheus brought pre-defined templates for infrastructure design to the point where Niu soon plans to allow customers to self-serve through the platform, safe in the knowledge that service provisioning will be in line with needs, budgets and governance standards.
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