Situation
The customer embarked on a journey to consolidate and modernize their data centers to bring more software defined capabilities and next generation infrastructure to support growing business demands and needs.
Impact
The customer has over $300M worth of obsolete infrastructure and lacks visibility into where the assets are, how they are being utilized, if they reached end of life or end of support, if they are compliant or the extent of security or vulnerability risk they pose to the IT business process. This resulted in increased operational expenses due to manual data collection/reconciliation, inaccurate data, prolonged change management processes, increased security/vulnerability risk and hindered customer’s ability to do capacity planning or undertake technology refresh initiatives.
Resolution
Fabrix.ai solution provided real-time Asset Intelligence with in-depth insights about extensive metadata for every asset, infra-to-application dependencies, capacity/utilization insights, EoS/EoL insights and performance utilization.
The client is one of the largest, global healthcare providers in the US. With 10+ data centers and 20,000+ data center assets, the company has an expanding footprint across multiple markets to offer healthcare services
The Need
Amidst the rising growth of Electric Vehicle demand, combined with the need to form and manage new supply chain partnerships and logistics, and the management of industrial and federal regulations, and the need to perform a whole new set of business operations decision making is pushing the customer to modernize their core IT infrastructure that can provide sustainable competitive advantage.
The Solution
CloudFabrix Asset Intelligence - Enterprise version was deployed in the customer’s primary Datacenter. The solution performed agentless discovery using multiple protocols, SNMPv3, Cisco Network devices, CDP, LLDP, Linux, Windows, Active Directory and API integrations to VMware, Infoblox NetMRI, Arista/BigSwitch SDN networks etc. The solution provided real-time Asset Intelligence with in-depth insights about extensive metadata for every asset, infra-to-application dependencies, capacity/utilization insights, EoS/EoL insights and performance utilization.
Findings
- 1PB+ of unused/unknown, storage
- Over 100+ unknown, un-patched, bare metal servers
- 200+ apps, with unknown passwords
- Unknown network elements
- 1,000’s of abandoned applications on servers
- Significant, hidden, decommissioned assets, still in use
- 10% more AIX servers in a cluster, than accounted for
Benefits
With CloudFabrix Asset Intelligence, the client has successfully completed IT rationalization at a 3X faster pace. Client is now well on the way to implement CMDB harmonization with CloudFabrix Asset Intelligence serving as a single source of truth.
- 100% IT assets discovered and accounted for
- Business Risk scoring of all critical assets
- Project completion in 25% of time (4-months vs 1-year planned)
- 100% CMDB accuracy and completeness