Turbocharging a trading platform and trading-up from Red Hat to Morpheus
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Product
- Morpheus
- VMware vCenter
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft DNS
- Infoblox IPAM
Tech Stack
- Morpheus
- VMware vCenter
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft DNS
- Infoblox IPAM
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence
- Fleet Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
The customer is a leading EMEA based FinTech Company that specializes in optimizing high-speed financial trading. They support dozens of exchanges, hundreds of firms, and thousands of end-users with a wide variety of SaaS platforms and software products. With clients in over 40 countries, they are on the cutting edge of algorithmic design and execution of trades to help aggregate trading actions and empower financial professionals to move faster than their competitors. The mission of this company is to power a variety of trading markets and to be an integral part of their client’s brokerage operations both in Europe and around the world. Innovation has been a core value for decades and now that genesis is extending into a next-gen artificial intelligence-based trading platform.
The Challenge
The company, a leading EMEA based FinTech Company specializing in optimizing high-speed financial trading, was facing a major gap between its development and operations teams. With over 5,000 users on its mission-critical platform, the organization needed effective DevOps to rapidly deliver new features that would satisfy user demand and outpace other providers in this highly competitive market. However, while the development part of the equation was moving fast, the operations team had yet to transform. Centralized IT operations were still utilizing legacy approaches to provisioning and software release, which meant rolling out new software features could be delayed up to 6 weeks. This caused cultural problems, creating a rift between app-dev and IT operations teams. The organization recognized that the only way to succeed in their DevOps initiative was to enable true self-service for development teams.
The Solution
The team ran a rigorous proposal and PoC process with several vendors, but because of the requirement for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) they were able to remove first-generation CMPs and other Ops-centric tools from consideration. Ultimately the decision came down to Morpheus vs the combination of Terraform and Ansible Tower. This pairing can be a challenge as individually, neither can manage the full lifecycle from application to infrastructure. With Morpheus, this wasn’t a problem. As a full-stack unified operations platform, the unified and application-centric focus of Morpheus dramatically simplified orchestration while improving security. Today, IT Ops enables continuous deployment to fulfill their side of the DevOps equation. When a build completes, developers call blueprints from Git and the Morpheus automation engine takes over. Servers are created, networking and domain joins are done, artifacts are deployed, logs are forwarded, and Developers get instant access to environments that are standardized from Test to QA to Production.
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