Case Studies

In the era of cloud, CloudBolt helps IT and developers work better together by empowering them with better visibility, control, and self-service. CloudBolt delivers the world's most user- friendly cloud management platform, so enterprises can provision, orchestrate, and consume IT resources across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and container environments. W W W . C L O U D B O L T . I O I N F O @ C L O U D B O L T . I O 7 0 3 . 6 6 5 . 1 0 6 0 Benefits The Home Depot successfully reduced time deploying infrastructure services, in turn allowing it to minimize the time and cost to bring applications to market. Self-service provisioning has become simple with server and container builds available on demand. The team previously responsible for building VMs by hand is now free to work on emerging technologies. Innovative features of CloudBolt are driving experimentation and adoption of newer technologies. Budgeting is made easy with enhanced visibility into the costs of resources. "The CloudBolt team has been with us on this journey to self-service. Their engineering team has been responsive and collaborative as we've worked through the challenges of converting our enterprise to self- service. This level of partnership and shared direction has enabled Home Depot to move faster, move further and continuously enhance our offerings to our Development Team customers," he added. Slow Time-to-Provision Conquered. Quick Time to Value Achieved. Innovation Enabled. Once CloudBolt was up and running, The Home Depot enjoyed rapid time to value. "It previously took them one to two weeks to provision a machine," said Aaron Jablonowski, Senior Solutions Engineer at CloudBolt. Today, it takes 20 minutes." Today, over 2,300 users leverage CloudBolt to provision resources without submitting a ticket. The process consists of a secure login and selection of machines, which frees IT management to focus on higher priority initiatives. Additionally, users know that resources aren't free just because they're on-premises. CloudBolt makes it possible to put the cost of resources in front of users at the time of ordering, increasing visibility and rightsizing resource use. Because CloudBolt enables quotas, users can be limited to a certain dollar or CPU amount. "It forms a two-way street to provide control as to who is deploying it and how much can be deployed," Jablonowski explained. The IT team at Home Depot has the power to provide self-service capabilities to end users while reducing touch points with support teams. They especially enjoy the CloudBolt blueprints feature for separation of orchestration and reporting, as well as APIs for automation. "Thanks to CloudBolt, our software engineering teams are happy customers, and they're effectively supporting our business applications," concluded Gordon Tallman, Home Depot Staff Systems Engineer. "It's unified and simple to use, and it understands user interfaces for many infrastructure services." The Home Depot is investing heavily in innovation, with a focus on time to value and self-service. CloudBolt is built to expand with its evolving IT strategy, including non- VM centric services. The Home Depot plans to expand its collaboration with CloudBolt through the integration of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and other emerging technologies. C A S E S T U D Y

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