nClouds AWS Case Study
6Connex
By partnering with nClouds, 6Connex successfully transformed its infrastructure, achieving substantial improvements in scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency, and overall business performance.
— Marc Goodell —
VP Environments & Infrastructure, 6Connex
Benefits Summary
Increased scalability for events of any size within minutes instead of hours
Significantly reduced infrastructure costs
Improved application uptime and significantly enhanced overall quality of service
Improved automation gained valuable time to focus on developing innovative features
About 6Connex
6Connex designs innovative marketing, sales, recruitment, training, and HR communications tools to help businesses transform big ideas into real-world results. The company’s software platform offers a fully customizable, secure, and reliable solution for a variety of applications, including virtual events and environments for career fairs, employee onboarding, user conferences, and corporate universities.
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Pleasanton, CA
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Challenge
6Connex’s existing on-premises infrastructure resulted in significant challenges for the company, including high maintenance costs, an inability to meet the reliability demands of its high-profile virtual events, and a lack of scalability that directly hampered profitability. Downtime was unacceptable, as its core business promise was consistent, high-quality service.
6Connex started looking for a solution that would enable it to redesign its infrastructure for better performance. Given the nature of its business, zero downtime of production environments was a central requirement, as their key promise to clients was reliability and quality of service related to virtual events. Its new infrastructure also needed to have the ability to scale up and down, as required, to maximize profitability.
Why AWS and nClouds?
6Connex initially engaged nClouds to help the company assess and improve its infrastructure. 6Connex was impressed with nClouds’ DevOps, MSP services, and MSP and asked nClouds to perform an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) of its CloudAnalytics supply chain planning platform.
Based on the WAFR findings and recommendations, 6Connex asked nClouds to work on items in its DevOps improvement roadmap, proactively identify and remediate issues, support the development team, and regularly communicate with product stakeholders.
Strategy and Solution
Partnering with nClouds, 6Connex migrated to a robust AWS architecture, achieving significant improvements in reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
nClouds leveraged its deep AWS expertise and DevOps capabilities to design and implement a modern, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure. Following a comprehensive Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR), a customized solution was implemented, incorporating best practices and utilizing key AWS services for CI/CD, compute, database, and caching to ensure high availability and performance. The solution addressed 6Connex’s need for zero downtime and on-demand scalability. This included a self-healing infrastructure design ensuring rapid recovery from any potential outages.
Results + Benefits
Teaming with nClouds, 6Connex moved from an on-premises infrastructure to a highly adaptable, scalable, and effective infrastructure in the cloud. The collaboration with nClouds yielded dramatic improvements for 6Connex:
Scalability
6Connex achieved a significant increase in scalability speed, enabling scaling for events of any size within minutes instead of hours, eliminating previous limitations and significantly boosting profitability.
Cost Reduction
Reduced infrastructure costs, freeing up resources for other business initiatives.
Reliability and Quality of Service
Improved application uptime and significantly enhanced overall quality of service, exceeding customer expectations and reinforcing 6Connex’s reputation for reliability.
Focus on Innovation
By automating previously manual tasks, the 6Connex team gained valuable time to focus on developing innovative features and improving customer experiences, enhancing its competitive advantage.