Client Background
Client: A large US-based bank
Industry: Financial services
Products or Services: Retail banking, credit cards, loans, savings
Areas of operations: Worldwide
Number of employees: Over 40,000
Challenges
The client wanted to embark on a cloud transformation journey by exiting on-premises data centers and moving all platforms and applications to the cloud. The strategy was to set up an ETL tool on Cloud. The applications that were to be migrated to cloud had to be tested before migration. However, the testing environment was not ready for the requirement. Due to manual provisioning of testing environments, application release was delayed, and incurred high operation effort and cost.
The need was to enable automation of the test environment to improve the cycle time, reduce the time to release and drive successful cloud migration.
Solutions
Wipro enabled infrastructure validation for cloud migrations using its accelerator solutions. Cloud assurance validation was accomplished through operating system upgrading and patch validations with focus on automated operating system validations including non-functional attributes like performance and security.
Solution highlights:
Business Impact
The usage of automated IP accelerators fast-forwarded the OS upgrade process by about 25%. The client was able to improve cadence through OS upgrades of servers, which led to minimal security vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks. Test environment automation allowed the bank to streamline repetitive tasks, and reduce release time and overall operation efforts.
“Our client wanted to move all its operations from legacy data centers to the cloud. Our accelerator helped to fast forward the upgrade process timeline by 25%.”
- Harish Krishnan, General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Wipro