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“ We did a stringent evaluation,” said O’ Shea.
How does the adoption of the SUSE platform widen the scope of Aussie Broadband’ s ambitions for future initiative and expansion?
Ben O’ Shea:“ The SUSE platform is a foundational element for multiple parts of our Technology Strategy. It provides the common cloud hosting platform which will host all our workloads and applications. It’ ll also be the foundation for our OSS and BSS re-platforming strategic initiatives, which will form the basis for our next phase of growth in our technology and business operations.
Technically, we’ ll also be moving up the stake from IaaS and CaaS to other platform services that can help reduce time to market for our future product and technology projects, including API Gateway aaS, Database aaS and so on.”
“ We looked at a number of open source and commercial vendors, and the customer references for SUSE and their support were exceptional – and that was a big part of the decision going forward.”
Using SUSE Rancher Prime as the control plane, and building on RKE2, SUSE Virtualisation, SUSE Linux Micro and SUSE Security, Aussie Broadband consolidated virtual machines and containerised workloads onto a single, unified platform. The company now manages its technology assets with a singlepane-of-glass interface – improving visibility and performance across its operations.
“ Delivering new virtual machines or new container instances can take anywhere from one to two days,” said O’ Shea.
“ With the automation that we ' ve been able to achieve on top of the SUSE platform – we ' ve got that down to one to two hours.”
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