SolutionSet

Business moves in real time. So should your cloud infrastructure.

SolutionSet Digital solves the software and marketing dilemmas of hundreds of clients. Hosted Chef ensures technology infrastructure resource availability isn't one of them.

The Challenge

SolutionSet, a part of Hyper Marketing, Inc., is one of the largest independent marketing services companies in the world. The company employs a heterogeneous IT infrastructure to drive rapid project development life-cycles for specialized digital marketing and custom software engineering solutions for clients around the world. There are hundreds of physical and public/private cloud-based servers under management spread across more than half a dozen data centers. Due to the significant operational demands of this type of environment, the SolutionSet engineering teams needed an automation solution capable of enabling 100% focus on client needs.

The Solution

After careful analysis, the decision was made migrate to Hosted Chef®. Migrating to Hosted Chef has provided SolutionSet the same robust configuration management and infrastructure automation engine that has helped streamline resource provisioning, IT operations, security and SLAs. Having it hosted and managed by Opscode has allowed the team to focus primarily on client needs day in and day out.

Hosted Chef enables SolutionSet to provision basic environments in minutes, or extremely complex distributed environments in only a few hours. This saves the company hundreds of person hours per year and allows SolutionSet to keep their operations lean, effective, and healthy.

The Results

  • Deploy IT resources in minutes instead of days
  • Save hundreds of person hours per year
  • Accelerate services delivery with always-on, immediately available IT infrastructure
  • Easily and consistently manage security best practices, ensuring client privacy and satisfaction
  • Sleep better at night knowing no matter what happens, they can recover quickly
"Hosted Chef has given us back hundreds of hours each year, it's that much of a game-changer. With Hosted Chef's cloud plug-ins, spinning up servers in an EC2 environment is as easy as a single command, then Chef takes it from there. I couldn't imagine doing it any other way." Kent Langley, Vice President, SolutionSet

SolutionSet is the fourth largest independent marketing services company, providing robust marketing and business solutions via digital, data management and analytics, direct, and local marketing. We plan, create and deliver integrated communications programs to build brands while driving transactions for clients, including adidas, AT&T, American Express, AMD, CCA Global, Cisco, Dell, eBay, National Consumer Panel, Nielsen and Office Depot.

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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.