Tata Communications

Speed to market is precious for DRVR, a rapidly growing start-up company. With a business model dependent on reliable mobile data, managers were spending their lives trying to negotiate data roaming deals with mobile network operators in different countries. And, even then, service quality was a constant concern.

As Europe’s second largest airline, Air France-KLM wanted to harness the latest technology innovations to help enhance the user experience of its many passengers, as well as support new aircraft as they were added to the company’s expanding fleet. Tata Communications’ global network was able to help.Air France-KLM’s business desired up-to-date organization-wide digital transformation. While its current customers wanted to fly on next-generation aircraft, Air France-KLM knew it also needed to expand into emerging markets and make the most of global travel opportunities opening up to it.The challenge was that Air France-KLM’s technology infrastructure needed to be improved to enhance the passenger experience and also needed to integrate cloud services and new applications to support huge amounts of data coming from next-generation aircraft.

Formula 1® is a sport where every millisecond matters. With changing preferences and the growth of the digital medium, many fans choose to experience the sport through the F1.com website. The website needs to deliver a superior experience to tens of millions of fans across the world consistently. Hence, it is imperative to have a robust platform that can deliver the required performance and scale with growing trac and dynamic fan expectations. Some of the key challenges are: • Every race weekend, Formula1.com attracts up to 7 million fans. Managing this huge surge in website traffic, requires a scalable hosting platform that can simultaneously allow millions of fans to experience the excitement of the sport seamlessly. • Fans across the globe expect an engaging and immersive experience through enriched and enhanced race content across multiple devices. To meet this requirement Formula1.com needs to have a robust platform that is able to deliver real-time updates and information across screens, be it tablets, TVs or smartphones. • A global brand like Formula 1® needs to ensure it delivers a consistent user experience across all platforms across the globe. This consistent delivery of enriched content cannot be compromised through downtime or any other issue at any point. • In an age where threats to global websites are prevalent, Formula 1® needed a platform that was ready to meet any challenge to its website. They needed a solution that delivers consistency, scalability and yet at the same time is continuously monitored, secure and reliable.

Infor, a company that builds business software for specific industries in the cloud, faced a significant challenge. With a workforce of 16,000 employees and over 90,000 customers spread across more than 170 countries, Infor's software is designed for progress. However, its business model, which involved licensing state-of-the-art software applications to run on customers’ own IT infrastructures, was proving to be a hurdle. One of their customers, Tal Apparel, was using legacy in-house IBM AS/400 computer systems. These systems were strained beyond their capabilities and were unable to run the newer Infor software. This situation posed a significant challenge for Infor, as it was hindering the progress and efficiency of their software deployment.

Microsoft needed to find a way to offer its enterprise customers improved network performance while reducing their capital and operational expenditure. With security and predictability as primary issues with public cloud and private cloud being expensive, enterprises need to look for a hybrid solution for their computing and data storage requirements.Available hybrid clouds are not hybrid in the true sense. There is always a security risk of transferring data over the ‘open internet’ – making enterprises compromise their network integrity. Thus, there was a need for an efficient hybrid cloud that overcomes the limitations of public and private cloud while ensuring security, reliability and performance.This powerful partnership can benefit any enterprise seeking to make its IT infrastructure more flexible and agile