With HPE OneSphere, Magellan can on-board private cloud resources and provide a cloud-like experience to its users
The rapid growth of e-sports and online platforms is changing the gambling landscape across the globe. The market is developing so rapidly that bookmakers need to be able to offer the latest products or risk losing customers to their competition. Magellan Robotech, one of Europe’s leading developers of customized gaming platforms and services, must be able to get new products to market quickly to stay ahead in a very competitive landscape.
Magellan Robotech was founded in 2014 by the Stanleybet Group, an international bookmaker with over 60 years of experience in the Gaming business, with the aim of exploring new frontiers in gaming and entertainment. They are well known for developing innovative V-Sports, V-Games, casino products and online retail platforms, with end-users experiencing highly sophisticated digital video streams of games and virtual sports. They have a team of more than 150 professionals dedicated to creating bespoke products and services, customized for the needs of every single client.
The problem: How to respond fast enough to market demand for new applications and services?
The gambling industry is hugely competitive and Magellan Robotech’s customers are reliant on the company to provide them with the latest innovative gaming products that constantly push the boundaries for virtual gaming. To bring new products to market increasingly faster, Magellan Robotech must be able to provision resources quickly when opportunities arise to develop new gaming services and applications for the market.
Previously Magellan Robotech’s test and development systems were housed in legacy data center infrastructure, but they faced constant bottlenecks due to challenges with scalability and agility. They needed to move from legacy waterfall methodologies into a DevOps environment. According to Graham Banner, Head of IT Operations at Magellan Robotech, “We wanted to enable the developers to be able to iterative test, quickly deploy applications, and tear them down and bring them back up again, without a roadblock from the infrastructure team who had a ticket system. This meant developers could wait five days to get hold of services."
The solution: streamline access to multi-cloud resources
The solution was the HPE OneSphere, an as-a-service hybrid cloud management platform. Through a unified view in HPE OneSphere the team at Magellan Robotech can build hybrid clouds capable of supporting both traditional, virtualized, and cloud-native applications, while providing company executives the cost insights they need to make informed business decisions on their cloud utilization. HPE OneSphere equips Magellan’s developers with application provisioning as-a-service, so that they can focus on creating the industry’s leading virtual gaming software.
Getting HPE OneSphere up and running is rapid due to its as-a-Service delivery model. “Within minutes of deploying HPE OneSphere it had automatically discovered our cloud estate. It provided us insights straight away into our environment. We could see how much resources were being consumed, which teams were running them, and how much capacity they needed”, says Banner.
It has been a hugely empowering tool for Magellan Robotech’s IT team. According to Banner, “HPE OneSphere supports our legacy application stack, the current application stack and our future application stack and it’s a bridge between all these environments across our estate.”
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