CASE STUDY Industry Retail Background Staples Inc. is the world’s largest office products company and one of the biggest internet retailers. The company opened its first store in 1986, began offering its stock publicly in 1989, began selling online in 1998, and has grown to $22.5 billion in annual revenue. Challenge Automate private cloud used by application development teams; create self-service provisioning for developers; speed deployment cycles. Solution • Automate cloud management & create a PaaS-like provisioning service. • Automate common IT operations tasks to provide consistency. • Free IT team to innovate. Results • Deployment cycles went from weeks to hours, from days to minutes. • Developers can provision their own environments as needed. Staples: Enabling DevOp

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