Case Study: Sakura KCS Corp cuts routine ops time and accelerates development with Puppet Enterprise

Automate routine development systems work and control risk with Puppet Enterprise

Sakura KCS Corporation, an IT and communications company, faced rising costs and complexity managing a growing data-center infrastructure. Daily monitoring and manual updates consumed three people 1–2 hours per day, and on-site systems engineers worked and tested in silos, limiting quality, speed and the company’s move toward a DevOps-driven development structure.

Sakura KCS implemented Puppet Enterprise to unify configuration and automate routine operations (password changes, updates, IP blocking) and to create versioned virtual test environments so settings and test cases are stored as code and shared across teams. This reduced manual workload by about 1–2 hours daily, lowered risk and human error, improved acceptance testing, and made development flows smoother and more scalable.

Sakura KCS

Masahiro Matsumoto

Senior Manager, Cloud Architecture Group