Publishing powerhouse Elsevier has been in business for more than 140 years. Tanium helped with its digital transformation and introduced critical automation into IT operations and security.
Key takeaways
Elsevier’s transition from traditional data centers and on premises applications to an agile, hybrid cloud infrastructure powers the company’s digital transformation and sustains a continuous pipeline of new products, leveraging multiple cloud environments to deliver greater scale and agility.
Managing thousands of transitory, virtual server instances
The need to constantly spin up thousands of servers, sometimes for only a few hours, requires incredible control on a daunting scale. Before Tanium, managing, tracking and controlling the software, licensing and patch levels for these often transitory server instances was enormously complex.
Security at scale
To manage its highly ephemeral virtual environment, Elsevier implemented a suite of Tanium products to bring visibility and control to its vast and dynamic pool of virtual servers. The Tanium Platform helps the Elsevier security team rapidly identify vulnerabilities across cloud endpoints and take immediate action to eliminate the exposure.
Visibility and control over a vast and volatile environment
Insights offered by the Tanium Platform have uncovered several opportunities for enhancing the performance of Elsevier’s cloud operations, such as highlighting underutilized stored data or software assets nearing end of life. With Tanium, the company now has a detailed map of its applications, devices, and cloud endpoints.
“Tanium helps us quickly distill large volumes of information about our sprawling, constantly changing virtual server environment. With Tanium, we can efficiently determine the key actions we need to take to keep our hybrid cloud infrastructure secure.”