Case Study: US State IT Organization achieves elimination of VM sprawl and sub-10-minute provisioning with CloudBolt Software

CloudBolt Expands Self-Service IT for US State Government

State IT Organization, the centralized IT group responsible for an entire U.S. state's IT services, faced fragmented virtualization across vCenter and XenServer clusters, growing VM sprawl that was costing thousands of dollars per month, slow provisioning, and rising shadow IT that put agency data at risk. After evaluating options, the customer selected CloudBolt Software and its cloud management platform to provide unified visibility and a self-service portal.

CloudBolt Software implemented a unified cloud management solution that ingested all VMs, identified and terminated underutilized instances, automated end-to-end provisioning and chargeback, and integrated with configuration management tools. The result: provisioning dropped from 2 days to under 10 minutes, dozens of staff hours were saved monthly on chargeback reporting, VM sprawl was rapidly reduced (including uncovering several TB of previously unaccounted storage and associated costs), and the IT organization gained agility to offer new self-service catalog offerings and stronger governance.