Case Study
nClouds AWS Case Study | Transport4
Billing itself as the “Orbitz for the Oil Industry,” Transport4 offers a cost-effective, reliable, and secure software solution for carriers and their customers distributing petroleum products throughout the United States. Petroleum suppliers turn to Transport4 to move product across state lines, determine what pipeline movements will best suit their supply needs, schedule the shipping, monitor for confirmations, and receive custody tickets for accounting.
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CHALLENGE
As the contract with its previous hosting provider was nearing its expiration date, Tim Hainey, Transport4’s vice president of infrastructure, realized that the company needed to evaluate alternatives for managing the company’s IT infrastructure. The cost-effectiveness, scalability, and reliability of public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), compared with the cost and availability associated with its existing provider, made the cloud a very attractive alternative. At that time, Transport4 had a small base of servers in its data centers and was concerned about maintaining availability in the event of an outage.
“We only had two servers sitting there [in the data center]; if we lost both of those, we were completely down,” Hainey said. “Now in Amazon, even if we lost 100 servers, we’d still be up and running since we can move around in their environment.”
Hainey realized that what had started as a hassle became a threat to Transport4’s business model that could ultimately impact its ability to deliver services to customers.
“We only had two servers sitting there [in the data center]; if we lost both of those, we were completely down. Now in Amazon, even if we lost 100 servers, we’d still be up and running since we can move around in their environment.” – Tim Hainey, Vice President of Infrastructure at Transport4
THE SOLUTION
After researching multiple vendors, Hainey and his team quickly realized that nClouds’ (formerly Cloudnexa’s) managed services on AWS presented the best price and service combination for their business. nClouds was able to ensure that Transport4’s transition to AWS was as simple and smooth as possible, and Transport4 ‘s migration was successfully completed in November 2014.
During the initial planning and build phases, Transport4 relied on nClouds’ architectural services team, which designed and deployed the VPCs, customer VPNs, multiregion connectivity, server, storage, and email infrastructure. Once migration was complete, the managed services team provided testing and quality assurance and transitioned to ongoing support for all associated environments’ services. As with any project, some minor hiccups were encountered, but all hurdles were overcome, and all issues were successfully resolved with nClouds’ assistance.
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