Case Study: IHG achieves unified multi-cloud management and self-service agility with CloudBolt Software

CloudCreates Unified Cloud Interface for IHG

IHG, the global hotel group, faced a fragmented cloud environment spanning four public clouds and VMware, forcing administrators to juggle multiple consoles and rely on VMware vRealize Automation—which didn’t support their public clouds and was expensive and time-consuming to maintain. To address this, IHG engaged CloudBolt Software to consolidate cloud management and simplify multi-cloud deployments.

CloudBolt Software delivered a single UI and API with native Chef Enterprise integration and reusable blueprints (including 40+ node Hadoop cluster blueprints) to deploy, scale, and manage services across AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure and CenturyLink. The solution enabled self-service access for dev/QA/production, rapid deployment of complex stacks within minutes, lifecycle automation for thousands of VMs (IHG runs 4,000+ VMs), improved vendor independence, and measurable cost controls via quotas, expirations and cost tracking, while bringing shadow IT under central control.

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