Rackspace Technology Modernizes Cando Rail Services Railcar and Shipment Tracking
September 01 2020 - 1:25PM
Rackspace Technology™ (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end
multicloud technology solutions company, today announced it has
partnered with Cando Rail Services, an international service
provider of rail solutions, to architect a solution that improved
railway IoT data processing through a serverless environment. With
over 42 years of experience, Cando offers specialized rail support
services to optimize the bulk material supply chain and is a
crucial linchpin between industrial customers and the Class 1
railways.
While developing its digital supply chain platform, Cando
partnered with Onica, a Rackspace Technology company, to implement
best practices that efficiently process and push through sensor
data collected from the train carriages. The company was already
using Amazon Web Services (AWS); however, it wanted a serverless
environment and needed an experienced partner to help with ongoing
optimization, enhancement and support. Additional priorities
included incorporating and following all security and CI/CD best
practices and building new workloads for Cando’s proprietary Quasar
platform. After completing an audit of the existing Quasar platform
architecture, Onica recommended upgrades to everything from the
database architecture to the AWS infrastructure.
“Onica helped us create a super collaborative, highly
functioning team that optimized our entire infrastructure and
architecture from the ground up,” said Corrie Banks, Director of
Logistics, Cando. “They executed the cut over from our old
environment to the new environment in two hours, absolutely
flawlessly.”
Onica began the engagement by fixing the existing environment to
resolve high latency and poor system performance. The team also
addressed the challenges of scaling and ongoing costs, which helps
drive a serverless solution implementation to lower operational
costs. As part of the roll out of the new serverless platform, the
Onica team seamlessly forwarded the data from the existing
environment. Onica will now serve as Cando’s network operations
center on a 24/7 basis for continued monitoring and support,
helping them deploy tactics from a cloud native mindset to achieve
the maximum business value from the cloud.
“Our serverless approach on AWS resulted in significantly
improved performance and efficiency,” said Tolga Tarhan, CTO,
Rackspace Technology. “What once took 90 seconds now takes less
than two, and at a fraction of the cost.”
As a result of the Onica team’s recommendation to move to a
serverless environment, Cando has increased deployments, sped up
change cycles, and reduced costs – all of which have allowed the
company to expand and acquire multiple larger customers.
About Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud
technology services company. We can design, build and operate our
customers’ cloud environments across all major technology
platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We
partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey,
enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and
adopt innovative technologies.
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