Following its merger, IHS Markit, a provider of information, analytics and solutions to 85% of the Fortune Global 500, needed to combine the IT operations of its two component companies and introduce a more automated IT infrastructure. As part of this alignment, it wanted the ability to better handle the billions of gigabits of data it processes every day and support its thousands of developers working to bring innovative products to market quickly; both key elements of maintaining a competitive edge.
“Markit was a big VMware shop and, as IHS had already started the private cloud journey, we were able to leapfrog ourselves over that process. That meant we could quickly roll out virtual machines and software-defined data centre (SDDC) technologies into Markit and IHS, building one unified private cloud for the company,”
- Ben Tanner, Director, Head of Cloud Enablement, IHS Markit