CLARIANT
Clariant
“ FROM THE INCEPTION OF OUR VISION , WE HAD THE GOAL OF BECOMING MASTERS IN AUTOMATION ”
ALI KHOSRAVI HEAD OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS , CLARIANT
extent and that translated into the mission of having scalability in our services .
“ Another of our goals was clearly to enter a pay-per-use model , to not be tied-up to hardware any longer , and to shut down costs instantly if needed .”
At the same time , Clariant wanted to improve the speed and quality of their services .
“ Prior to our transformation , we may have needed days or weeks to deploy services ; now , thanks to our automation systems , we can now do that within hours or minutes ,” says Khosravi .
“ We also wanted to significantly improve our security posture , needing faster integration and divestitures of our business units and bottom line . We also tried to improve and reduce our overall global data centre hosting costs , which we decreased by more than 25 %.”
All these adaptations resulted in migration onto Clariant ’ s managed cloud , into infrastructure as a code .
Clariant shifted to bottom-line automated infrastructure , provisioning and operation , wanting to move fully away from conventional , on-prem environments where you have a lot of manual processes and activities .
Khosravi says : “ We needed to achieve all of that within a two-year timeline , because
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