Global Advertising Technology Company Relies on ePlus for On-Premises Data Center Infrastructure Build
Reduced public cloud spend by more than 50% and increased the ability to support growing business transactions using a scalable platform
Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The company’s business transactions had been growing rapidly on its self-service platform that allows advertisers to target their ads more precisely, measure their results more accurately, and control their budgets more effectively via a variety of channels.
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Challenge 2
The platform was built initially upon a public cloud footprint. To reduce its cloud bill and continue to satisfy business growth, the customer decided to build its own data centers, including a compute farm and network backbone in multiple colocations.
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Challenge 3
They sought data center expertise and project management to ensure the on-prem infrastructure provides cloud-like capabilities and quality.
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Why ePlus?
- ePlus has extensive experience and a deep bench in data center build and integration projects, including strong professional services and project control.
- ePlus maintains strong relationship with multiple leading vendors in the data center space, helping customers achieve their business goals through innovative technical solutions.
- ePlus can provide technical guidance and recommendations to contribute to the customer’s new data center design in both compute and network.
- ePlus has a keen understanding of the customer’s business production system, previously building 50 compute-heavy racks with 2,000+ nodes across multiple data centers.
Solution
Data Center Services:
- ePlus engaged with the customer to discover business and technical requirements for the data center build in scope.
- Through a series of design sessions, ePlus created a detailed plan of how to deliver massive compute intensive racks, down to each component, during the supply chain shortage crisis and meet the required timeline.
- ePlus developed multiple testing kits, including throughput testing, health check, and inventory cutsheet, to guarantee that all racks of components work as designed meet all of the specifications.
- ePlus provided on-site, white-glove services to remediate any risk and ensure production readiness.
Business Outcomes
By more efficiently utilizing their on-prem compute platform, the customer realized significant cost savings—reducing public cloud spend by more than 50% compared to building on AWS.
- The company is now able to support its growing business transactions using the expanded and scalable compute platform.
- They received white-glove service from ePlus, with thousands of integrated compute nodes delivered on time.
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