Benefits: 30% increase in productivity
With its SteelHead CX devices, Mondadori France is now in a position to maximize use of the 60 servers and 50 TB of storage available in the Cloud. This change is now possible due to Riverbed.
“The flexible technical configurations of this overall solution offer huge benefits. It is very simple to increase or decrease the memory or processing power we require, thereby reducing the costs involved, thanks to pay-per-use billing,” says Mr. Houdart.
The Publishing Now application has been migrated to the cloud and has experienced a 30% increase in productivity, facilitating the work of journalists and DTP specialists.
The IT team will shortly move to a global solution optimization phase, based on cloud and SteelHead applications that enable increased throughput and optimization and acceleration of applications in real-time.
For instance, as a result, it will use less powerful servers during the night for certain functions and switch others off at the weekend to conserve energy and costs.
The full externalization of its infrastructure will also enable the French subsidiary to fully migrate to the cloud in 2020 without the need for financial investments in its server room, thus also reducing its electricity consumption and costs.
Moving forward, Mr. Houdart believes Riverbed offers Mondadori many opportunities. “Our approach has been extremely well supported by Riverbed and its partner Nelite, who have even helped us to make optimum use of all the functions available from the SteelHeads,” he says. So strong is the relationship that the media group is now investigating other Riverbed solutions for monitoring user perception of application performance.