CLARIANT
“ IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE OCEAN ,
YOU DON ' T NEED THE BEST BOAT ,
BUT YOU DO NEED
PEOPLE WHO SHARE WITH YOU THE PASSION FOR
THE SEA ”
ALI KHOSRAVI HEAD OF GLOBAL
TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS , CLARIANT
( Request For Proposal ) and went through the entire process . They also wanted to consolidate several providers into one , and to reduce costs through that consolidation .
Once the RFP was successful , Clariant decided on HCLTech as being the application operation provider , “ and I proposed that we insource the hosting and automation platform back to Clariant ”.
“ Because of that insourcing strategy , it meant that we needed to start with the hiring process immediately . We then began hiring a large number of new internal Clariant members , cloud engineers and cloud architects in three different locations globally , which were mainly in Poland , Spain and India ,” asserts Khosravi .
“ To build up the cloud engineering and cloud architects within the client – in regards to the cloud environment itself – we went through deep analysis and through proof of concept with the usual suspects of cloud providers , until finally going deeper down the road and deciding on AWS , because we were impressed with the stability of their technology .
“ We were even more impressed with how many new technologies get deployed within the AWS environment per month or week , which we wanted to leverage from them .
“ Then , at a certain point , the decision was made to go with AWS as our single cloud provider . We declined to go multi-cloud or hybrid because we knew that would add complexity as well as costs .”
Outcomes of the programme As a consequence of its transformational programme , Clariant has migrated around 270 to 280 applications into the cloud .
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