Imagination

Think outside of the (server) box.
Imagination creates one-of-a-kind brand experiences for the world's biggest companies. To accelerate time-to-market, Imagination automated their hybrid event infrastructure with Hosted Chef™.

The Challenge

Imagination, one of the world's leading creative agencies, provides a broad spectrum of communications, events and digital media services for leading brands worldwide, including Canon, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Shell and many more. With its business dependent on the ability to create and recreate sophisticated infrastructure and applications in very little time, Imagination needed an automation framework that could deploy infrastructure as code and provide a model for reuse to speed development and reduce management time.

The Solution

Imagination deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ across its Amazon EC2 cloud and physical data center servers, automating everything from configuration management to the delivery of data-intensive applications. Imagination used Hosted Chef to accelerate time to market for live brand experience projects from days to hours, while eliminating nearly all manual infrastructure management.

The Results

  • Accelerate time to market from days to hours
  • Eliminate human error to ensure maximum infrastructure consistency
  • Adapt to change on the fly with a model for reuse
"Hosted Chef gives us the confidence to push our creative limits and the framework to eliminate barriers between dev and ops. We now have the agility to rapidly evolve our business and continue innovating ahead of the curve." Kel Phillipson, Head of Technology, Imagination

Imagination is a dynamic creative agency providing a broad spectrum of services encompassing everything from traditional advertising, PR, digital multi-platform marketing programs, live events, and interactive brand experiences.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.