Case Study: US State Government achieves rapid self-service IT and elimination of VM sprawl with CloudBolt Software

CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

US State Government, the centralized IT organization responsible for statewide internal capabilities and public services, faced fragmented virtualization across multiple vCenter and XenServer clusters, growing VM sprawl that cost thousands of dollars per month, slow provisioning times, and rising shadow IT. To regain control and provide on-demand access to resources, the agency selected CloudBolt Software and its cloud management/self-service platform to centralize visibility, governance, and provisioning.

CloudBolt Software implemented a self-service portal, centralized VM inventory ingestion, automated provisioning and testing (Cloud Supply Chain Validator), and streamlined chargeback reporting. The solution cut VM provisioning from 2 days to under 10 minutes, rapidly eliminated VM sprawl, saved dozens of staff hours monthly on reporting, uncovered several terabytes of previously unaccounted storage, and enabled the state to quickly roll out new service offerings while restoring governance.