Customer: KVD Kvarndammen AB
Sector/industry: Auction website/eCommerce
KVD's Manager of IT Operations sleep soundly knowing that he does not have to worry about the IT operations. Their infrastructure, implemented according to current best practices guarantee a more stable solution. With the new solution, KVD is achieving a higher availability of their business critical auction web side than ever before, and the KVD development team can use more time actually developing.
Delivery
IT Operations, DevOps and Housing
Benefits
- Website availability is significantly increased
- Deployment cycle for new functionality is decreased
- Customers development team uses less time on solving operational issues, and more time on developing new features
The challenge
Running an auction website with thousands of users simultaneously accessing the site, while satisfying the need to continuously develop the site and enhance it with new features. During the auction period the website has to be reliable and available for all users to ensure a fair auction process, and failures will result in canceled auctions.
KVD is constantly enhancing their platform and wanted to increase the speed of new implementations. The development team at KVD also wanted to use more time on actually developing, and less time on operating the solution, while increasing both availability and stability of the solution.
The solution
Agile IT operations and Managed Services
The result
Implementation of a new infrastructure according to current best practices, with fully automated deployment of operating system and application configuration. 24/7 monitoring and operational services guarantee a more stable solution. With the new solution, KVD is achieving a higher availability of their business critical auction web side than ever before.
KVD development team is now able to focus on improving their auction site, and has more time available for the development of new solutions.
Quote:
"Our site has never been so stable as since Redpill Linpro took responsiblity. I sleep soundly knowing that Redpill Linpro are taking care of our IT operations.”
Fredrik Wilcken, Manager IT Operations