American financial institution builds success on Red Hat + Cisco Alliance, that is delivering top of the class private cloud sollution.

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FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
SOFTWARE AND
SERVICES
Red Hat®
Enterprise Linux®
OpenStack®
Platform
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat CloudForms
OpenShift by Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HARDWARE
Cisco UCS rack servers
San Jose, CA
HEADQUARTERS
“With Red Hat solutions on Cisco UCS
hardware, we’ve created an elastic, scalable
infrastructure that gives us the rapid
innovation and agility of cloud, plus the ability
to deliver Software-as-a-Service. We can
create new offerings while controlling our data,
workloads, compliance, and security.“
NICK GERASIMATOS
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, CLOUD SERVICES AND
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, FICO
Learn more about Red Hat customer successes: redhat.com/en/success-stories
CHALLENGE
• Address small-to-medium business (SMB) and midmarket customer requests for FICO solutions
without on-premise installation
• Build and launch an OpenStack cloud environment in less than a year to evolve from an on-premise
model to a cloud- and services-based infrastructure
• Replace VMware, IBM, and NetApp systems with distributed architectures, scalable apps, and
containers
SOLUTION
• Deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
• Deployed OpenShift by Red Hat with a dual storage approach, using SolidFire for critical applica-
tions and Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Unified management and capacity planning with Red Hat CloudForms
BENEFITS
• Generated US$10 million in sales to new SMB and midmarket customers
• Reduced solution time to market by 50%
• Reduced build times from days to minutes by automating deployments to achieve consistency and
repeatability
• Lowered overall costs by 30% for both internal and customer-facing cloud environments and
lowered storage costs by 60%
• Gained ability and knowledge to contribute to solution code base
FICO WINS CUSTOMERS WITH RED HAT
OPENSTACK CLOUD
CUSTOMER SUCCESS SNAPSHOT