Japanese IT company cuts server provisioning time by 78% with automation

Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc. (MHIR) is the in-house IT strategy and consulting business company for The Mizuho Group, one of Japan’s three major megabanks. To develop applications in response to the fast-paced financial market, Mizuho created a private cloud infrastructure to consolidate its large, complex system footprint. MHIR used Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate hardware setup processes for Mizuho Cloud (IA). As a result, MHIR has reduced related work hours by 78% and improved infrastructure stability with standardized, automated processes.

Benefits

• Reduced infrastructure hardware setup time from six weeks to as fast as three days
• Improved infrastructure stability and code quality with standardized automation
• Enhanced new automation approach with expert enterprise support