Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.2 Information Guide

 

 

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Customer Case Study 

Customer Name: Aurecon 

Industry: Engineering 

Location: Singapore 

Number of Employees: 7500 

●  Existing data center architecture unable to 

support corporate growth 

●  Lack of backend automation and orchestration 

burdened infrastructure services staff with 
repetitive tasks 

●  Application support teams hampered by long 

lead times for provisioning services 

●  Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 

●  Two or three days of virtualized server 

provisioning reduced to one day 

●  Application support teams empowered to 

provision and control resources through self-
service portal 

●  Developing formal decommissioning process 

will free up valuable server capacity as 
company grows 

 

Data Center Orchestration and Automation Support 
Global Growth 

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud helps Aurecon create a scalable environment, 
while self service empowers application support. 

Business Challenge 

Aurecon provides engineering, management, and specialist technical 

services for both the private and public sector. The company has 

executed over 10,000 projects in over 80 countries across Africa, 

Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. The five-tower 

Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi is just 

one of Aurecon’s many 

engineering feats. Aurecon designed the structural system that 

stabilizes the very slender frames of the ethereal-looking towers. 

Not surprisingly, this skilled group of engineers and consultants is in 

demand around the world, and Aurecon is growing rapidly. But this 

global growth placed a tremendous strain on existing data center 
resources. “The company is keen to grow,” says Adam Selwood, 

design and architecture lead for infrastructure services, 

“and we are 

bringing on new users, applications, and services at a greatly 

accelerated pace. It was imperative that we have an infrastructure 

that gives project teams around the world the tools and support they 
need to continue to perform extraordinary work for clients.” 

The Infrastructure Services team of 25 people, including Selwood, is 

part of the Information Services group. The Infrastructure Services 

team is responsible for supporting the infrastructure in 70 offices in 24 countries, as well as in 

the company’s four 

data centers. The team itself has the challenge of being spread across six cities in four time zones. 

The company’s existing data center in Australia was reaching the end of its useful life. “We hit a wall in terms of 

extensibility and capacity, and we knew we had to re-archite

ct the data center from the ground up,” says Selwood. 

“We took the opportunity to reassess what we needed to support Aurecon’s growth for the next three to five years.” 

At that point in time, cloud technology was beginning to mature, and Selwood and his team decided that a private 

cloud would give Aurecon the greatest value and flexibility.