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SoftLayer hybrid infrastructure helps a firm cut costs by 25 percent and extend services worldwide

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Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • SoftLayer®
Tech Stack
  • Cloud Computing
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Founded in 2000, Viewpointe is a leading managed service and payments provider to regulated industries. Top-tier financial institutions throughout North America rely on the company’s information governance, check archive, check image exchange, clearing and settlement services. The company was looking for a strategic shift in its IT environment and client-facing systems to achieve cost savings and greater efficiency.
The Challenge
Viewpointe, a leading managed service and payments provider to regulated industries, was looking to reduce costs and boost efficiency. The company wanted to move its internal and client-facing IT operations to a single high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure. The goal was to find an infrastructure solution that would provide overall savings and greater efficiency, allowing the company to be more competitive in the market.
The Solution
Viewpointe provisioned a hybrid SoftLayer® cloud environment and migrated development and quality assurance, website, accounting, email and demo workloads to the new platform. The company compared solutions from its existing cloud providers, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. and Rackspace Inc., to the SoftLayer cloud platform and determined that SoftLayer technology offered the cost savings and flexible infrastructure options it required. The SoftLayer platform provided a single platform with both bare metal and virtual servers, allowing Viewpointe to build out exactly what they needed.
Operational Impact
  • Viewpointe reduced costs by 25 percent by migrating from its previous cloud platforms to a single SoftLayer environment.
  • The company accelerated deployment from approximately one week with traditional infrastructure to just 30 minutes with SoftLayer technology, an improvement of 99.7 percent.
  • The SoftLayer platform supports Viewpointe in extending its service portfolio globally.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Cost reduction by 25 percent
  • Deployment acceleration by 99.7 percent

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