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FINANCIAL INDUSTRY

SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

OpenStack® Platform

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Red Hat CloudForms

OpenShift by Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

HARDWARE

Cisco UCS rack servers

San Jose, CA

HEADQUARTERS

“With Red Hat solutions on Cisco UCS

hardware, we’ve created an elastic, scalable

infrastructure that gives us the rapid

innovation and agility of cloud, plus the ability

to deliver Software-as-a-Service. We can

create new offerings while controlling our data,

workloads, compliance, and security.“ NICK GERASIMATOS

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, CLOUD SERVICES AND

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, FICO

Learn more about Red Hat customer successes: redhat.com/en/success-stories

CHALLENGE

• Address small-to-medium business (SMB) and midmarket customer requests for FICO solutions

without on-premise installation

• Build and launch an OpenStack cloud environment in less than a year to evolve from an on-premise

model to a cloud- and services-based infrastructure

• Replace VMware, IBM, and NetApp systems with distributed architectures, scalable apps, and

containers

SOLUTION

• Deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

• Deployed OpenShift by Red Hat with a dual storage approach, using SolidFire for critical applica-

tions and Red Hat Ceph Storage

• Unified management and capacity planning with Red Hat CloudForms

BENEFITS

• Generated US$10 million in sales to new SMB and midmarket customers

• Reduced solution time to market by 50%

• Reduced build times from days to minutes by automating deployments to achieve consistency and

repeatability

• Lowered overall costs by 30% for both internal and customer-facing cloud environments and

lowered storage costs by 60%

• Gained ability and knowledge to contribute to solution code base

FICO WINS CUSTOMERS WITH RED HAT OPENSTACK CLOUD

CUSTOMER SUCCESS SNAPSHOT