Helping a $27 Billion Business Upgrade its Network Management Capabilities

A 100+ year old regional bank with over $27 Billion in assets and more than 250 offices and 2800 employees needed help improving the security and scalability of their network infrastructure.

This bank has a well-qualified network-engineering group whose primary focus is day-to-day operations. They didn't have the time or specialized expertise to make rapid progress on modernization of their network management process and procedures. Traditional, manual approaches to network configuration and management were too slow and error-prone to effectively support the needs of a growing company with critical security requirements. Network automation, on the other hand, uses programmable logic to manage network resources and services securely and efficiently at any scale. It was clear that automation was needed.

The customer's network operations group chose Ansible as its automation platform but needed additional expertise to jump-start the initial phases of the project and mentor its engineers. They reached out directly to Red Hat and ITSco was engaged through RedHat's partner network.