CASE STUDY Industry Insurance Background Hiscox is a publicly traded property and casualty insurance company based in the UK. Challenge Hiscox needed to increase the pace of change to release new products quickly into a highly competitive and fast-moving market. Solution Introduced DevOps practices and automated with Puppet Enterprise. Results • Reduced cost per release on a major application by 97%. • Release cycle improved from 10 weeks per deployment to 50 deployments per week. • Reduced time per release by 89%. • Reduced staff required to release by 75%. • Now builds VMware virtual machines twice as fast. Hiscox Reduces the Cost of Release by 97% with DevOps and PuppetCase study — Hiscox 3 I joined Hiscox as a solution architect, having worked at a number of different compa

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