Sports betting and iGaming specialist FSB Technology has slashed the time and effort required to reach out to new global markets using innovative cloud technology.
Having already replaced its outsourced IT infrastructure with a more agile and scalable cloud platform, FSB Technology needed to reach out to more geographically remote areas whilst still meeting regulatory requirements at pace. To this end it decided to deploy Nutanix Cloud Clusters to host core workloads on AWS and other public cloud platforms.
“We were recently given less than a month to set up in a remote area where we had no presence at all,” explained Andrew Jobson, Head of IT at FSB Technology. “At first sight it looked unworkable, but then we learnt about these new cloud clusters and, in under two weeks, had a new cluster up and ready for business in the AWS public cloud.”
He added that the initial implementation took days to provision in the AWS cloud, using third party help to configure the required Amazon EC2 i3 instances and install the new cloud software remotely. Then FSB was able to move application workloads unchanged onto the new cluster and manage them remotely using the same console as its other, on-premise, deployments.
“It looks and behaves just like any other cluster,” commented Jobson. “Except it’s in the cloud, not one of our datacentres, and fully complies with geographic and other requirements of local gaming authorities. The clusters have fully lived up to expectation, both in terms of performance and availability. I anticipate additional benefits going forward, having deliberately sized the AWS deployment to allow FSB to host other customers in the same geolocation without the need for additional investment.”
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