Case Study: Leading Credit Card Company speeds time-to-market and saves $3M with Mirantis OpenStack private cloud

Leading Credit Card Company Taps OpenStack to Speed Time-to-Market and Lower Platform Costs

A leading credit card company spun up a technology-driven business unit to build a modern payments platform (prepaid and digital card services), but its on‑premise infrastructure across multiple data centers hindered growth. Manual provisioning took two weeks, development/test/production environments drifted, and rising capital and operating costs (roughly 30 engineers supporting legacy platforms) plus PCI and data‑residency requirements constrained agility and time‑to‑market.

The team built a Mirantis OpenStack private cloud with PLUMgrid SDN, Mirantis Fuel and the Asgard management layer, staffed a small Cloud Operations group, and deployed an active‑active, PCI‑compliant platform across two U.S. data centers. The result: self‑service provisioning in about five minutes (a 90% reduction), elimination of environment drift, an 80% cut in systems cost (~$3M annual savings), a much smaller ops team managing thousands of VMs, and faster delivery of production services (first app reached 100K API calls/day).