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Major University Reduces Shadow IT, Increases Automation with CloudBolt

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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 With CloudBolt in place, the IT organization reported the following benefits: Seamless support of instructional resource needs A reduction in the use of shadow IT environments and their related costs Usage tracking and automatic cleanup of student environments Rapid creation of unique infrastructure and platforms offerings Multi-tenant solutions with unified management of disparate groups' environments Access to technologies that students are likely to encounter in the career marketplace CloudBolt's selection was based on CloudBolt's unique ability to rapidly integrate with non-traditional service providers. In the university's case, they needed to make cloud-provided Drupal instances available to end users in an on-demand basis, while still accounting for cost transparency and access rights. While the competition claimed to be able to rapidly do this, CloudBolt was the only tool that was able to demonstrate this capability in the university's own environment. CloudBolt enabled the university to consolidate shadow IT environments that groups turned to when they were unable to get access to centralized resources in a timely manner. Providing on-demand centralized access, man- agement, and provisioning of IT resources also enabled the university to achieve better economies of scale as they extended their offerings to a larger faculty, staff, and student population. Furthermore, the ability to add elastic public cloud-based resources enabled the cloud team to flexibly account for peaks in demand based on enrollment. Integrated reporting ensured accurate cost accounting. The cloud team's use of CloudBolt to provide on-de- mand IT resources from a variety of managed envi- ronments has made them the de-facto IT architecture thought leaders at the university. IT teams such as the Windows group now look toward the cloud team's of- ferings as the reference architecture for how to properly implement cloud-based services in varied and disparate environments. Thanks to its selection of CloudBolt, the cloud team has increased their organizational capital. Providing on-demand centralized access, management, and provisioning of IT resources also enabled the university to achieve better economies of scale as they extended their offerings to a larger faculty, staff, and student population. C A S E S T U D Y

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