Success Story: Satina
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Success Story: Satina
Wabion & Satina optimize
high-traffic platforms
on the Google Cloud Platform
Takeaways:
- Based on Wabion’s proven approach to migrate workloads and software stacks to Google Cloud, Satina moved its IT infrastructure from its previous private cloud provider to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- With Compute Engine and App Engine at the heart of its GCP environment, Satina got a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure to accommodate growth.
- The solution on GCP enabled by Wabion saves time and money previously spent on infrastructure provisioning and smoothens customer experience.
Headquartered in Sion, Switzerland, Satina develops and operates various high-traffic web platforms and online marketplaces bringing companies and customers together. Typically for a platform provider undergoing strong growth, Satina ran into frustrations with its original Private Cloud Provider due to a lack of speed, flexibility and scalability. As a result, Satina set out to find the right solution to accommodate growth and optimize customer experience.
“If you want to be successful as a web platform provider, you have to deliver what your partners, customers and users need. The less time you spend on providing infrastructure to create space for growth, the more you can focus on growth by giving your developers the time to develop the best possible customer experience.”
François Pfefferle
Admin & Project Management Director
Satina Communication SA & Satina International SA
Google Cloud as logical step
The main goal of any web platform provider is to make customers, partners and users happy. By freeing up developers from worrying about provisioning and maintaining IT infrastructure, Satina is able to focus on its core mission:
- To provide services that scale flexibly and automatically optimizing the web platform experience for partners, customers and users.
- To commit to continuous innovation based on the latest technologies.
As satisfied Google Workspace customer, Satina was already acquainted with Google Cloud. Therefore, the company opted for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its managed services to provide IT infrastructure as needed. To let the Satina IT team focus on optimizing its own products, i.e. the applications to run Satina’s web platforms, as fast as possible, Satina turned to Wabion.
“Our infrastructures migration was made easy thanks to the help of Wabion. Our IT team is now able to maintain Satina systems independently. We are also delighted to discover new functionalities offering us new perspectives for our future projects.”
Naser Sulejmani
IT Project Development Manager
Satina Communication SA & Satina International SA
Lift & Shift migration
guided by wabion
Wabion is a leading Google Cloud Premier Partner in the DACH region and has supported fast-growing companies such as Gamaya and Ricardo, Switzerland’s largest online marketplace, in migrating their IT infrastructure from on-prem data centers to Google Cloud. Based on its vast experience with migration projects and Google’s best practices, Wabion has developed a proven approach to migrate workloads and software stacks to GCP.
Wabion’s proven approach to Lift & Shift migrations helped Satina move its workloads and software stacks to its new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment on GCP within a few weeks. After assessing Satina’s existing environment (Workload Discovery), Wabion GCP experts guided the Satina IT team through Workload Transformation (clean-ups, upgrades where necessary), Workload Provisioning (configuration of the Satina GCP environment), Migration & Sync (including testing), Production Cut-Over and Environment Optimization.
The Wabion Lift & Shift method paved the way for Satina’s smooth transition from its previous Private Cloud Provider to GCP. Building on a solid Cloud Foundation to set the basic configurations (IAM, Networking etc.) of Satina’s GCP instance, Wabion’s GCP experts also guided the Satina IT team through all the phases of the migration and developed the architecture of the Satina GCP environment.
Initially, Compute Engine with Managed Instance Groups was at the heart of Satina’s GCP environment. Set up by Wabion GCP experts, the Satina IT team finally had a developer-friendly tool to provide virtual machines as needed for their platforms including autoscaling, automatic updating and other features to reduce the amount of work related to infrastructure provisioning. Trained by Wabion GCP experts, the Satina IT team was able to transfer central parts of their applications independently to App Engine focussing even more on application development and customer experience optimization. Cloud SQL as fully managed relational database and Cloud Storage as backup solution also make life easier for the Satina IT team.
“We knew that our goal was a solution with an automated, flexible and scalable infrastructure that lets us focus on our core mission. Wabion’s unique GCP know-how and migration project management skills got us there in a much faster and smoother way. Thanks to our collaboration with Wabion, we are now able to create what our partners, customers and users need – and the infrastructure is there. We stay on our growth path with Wabion on our side.”
François Pfefferle
Admin & Project Management Director
Satina Communication SA & Satina International SA
Focus on customer satisfaction instead of infrastructure
Wabion’s profound GCP expertise and migration project management skills has enabled Satina to accommodate growth for its web platforms and online marketplaces. By switching from its original Private Cloud Provider to GCP, Satina benefits in many ways:
- Focus: The Satina IT team can autonomously develop whatever the optimization of the customer satisfaction requires – thanks to GCP’s automated scalability.
- Cost: Developers save a big deal of time and money previously spent on infrastructure provisioning.
- Quality: Google Cloud’s unique infrastructure and performance not only protects against technical failures, but also smoothens customer experience.
Some of the world’s largest and most successful web platforms such as Spotify fully rely on Google Cloud because of its ease of use, flexibility and scalability. So does Satina with the support of Wabion, preparing the ground for Satina’s successful cloud journey.
Learn more about the GCP products leveraged in this project:
Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage