SaaS Provider - Containerization of Company Infrastructure to Scale

Client

A leading provider of SaaS solutions for millions of organizations worldwide and they needed to optimize the platform to support their fast-growing business. Their operating costs were nonlinearly increasing while the SLAs were deteriorating.

Challenges

• Multiple SaaS applications used by different organizations were in various time zones.
• Many difficult-to-migrate applications were performing in-memory computing.
• Need for high security to keep customer data isolated.
• Improve the server performance for securely isolated customer workloads.

Solution

• Offered Kubernetes-based solutions that effectively isolated customer workloads within separate containers.
• Migrated applications to Kubernetes clusters on Azure infrastructure according to the client-approved architecture.
• Configured auto-scale rules to optimize server performance by changing load.
• Optimized infrastructure and removed performance hot spots to fit rapid business growth.

Value

• Improved hardware utilization ratio by 30%.
• Increased density of virtual environments by 20% leveraging containerization technologies.
• Securely isolated customer workloads and data from each other.
• Significantly reduced average deployment time.
• Converted the entire platform to a scalable solution.