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State IT Agency Reduces Infrastructure Provisioning From 11 Days to 30 Minutes Using CloudBolt

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Case Study - State IT Agency cloudbolt.io 703.665.1060 " The vRA learning curve is long and steep. We spent an unreasonable amount of time, people resources, even VMware professional services and never got vRA to be an automated self-service portal across private and public infrastructure." Challenges The Infrastructure as a Service team at the agency tried for two and half years to make VMware's vRealize Automation (vRA) their automation and provisioning engine behind delivery of their hybrid cloud infrastructure. "The vRA learning curve is long and steep. We spent an unreasonable amount of time, people resources, even VMware professional services and never got vRA to be an automated self-service portal across private and public infrastructure," described the agency's Infrastructure as a Service team leader. "vRA was very touchy, not highly available; we expected more uptime. And given how complicated everything was in vRA, we never realized the 'Return on Complexity' we should have." The agency's team found other limitations with vRA. The product was not user-friendly and required significant training and professional services. "We also discovered that vRA is very VMware-centric and to get AWS or Azure support, we would have had to upgrade to vRA Enterprise at a seven figure + upgrade price," the agency explained. Additionally, upgrading to VMware's latest version (vRA 8) would have required a complete re-write of all the automation the agency's team spent years building, not to mention that vRA doesn't provide self-service capabilities. vRA is resource-intensive and requires lots of care and feeding. The agency's infrastructure team wanted to explore alternatives. They sought a solution that was less complex but supported multiple public clouds, required less people to maintain, and provided self-service capabilities so they could better serve their agency partners (or customers).

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