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was really no room for error . Having a partner like Computacenter definitely lightens the load .
“ Choosing the right partners is important . In addition to bringing Computacenter onboard , we also made an early call to build i2 on the Red Hat OpenStack distribution . Red Hat gave us access to a level of expertise and support that translated into delivering a more robust infrastructure in a shorter timeframe .
“ The cross-vendor support model we have created around OpenStack has allowed us to rapidly problem-solve and determine root cause as we worked through transformation issues . We achieved this without any material service interruption to our business .
This enabled it to embrace the Component Ownership model which flourished to deliver a more reliable overall technology estate . It is now setting its sights firmly on a Low / No-Ops model , whereby all infrastructure is available at the highest possible level of abstraction . Consequently development teams are now spending less time on infrastructure scripting and more on innovating and solving for customers .
“ From a customer outcome perspective this is a far more productive use of our developers ’ time , especially as we can now auto-
DEVOPS TO NOOPS PPB was an early convert to DevOps and had integrated infrastructure engineers within delivery teams to reduce handovers and dependencies between engineering functions .
AUGUST 2018