Welcome to Silicon Overdrive!
CMS Systems is a market leader in cloud-based software solutions for the automotive industry, providing all-in-one dealership customer management solutions.
The CMS Sales Solutions ensure all prospects are attracted, captured, and followed up effectively, increasing test drives and all other actions that have been proven to increase sales.
All their partners are backed up by a team of automotive and software experts, focused on simplicity, ensuring their dealership has the best tools to close more deals in less time. Along with solutions for managing and growing dealership customer loyalty.
CMS Systems Windows global workload is a replication of their main production workload that has been deployed with the purpose of servicing their growing international customer base in the Middle East and Europe.
CMS Systems has been gradually expanding into the Middle East and Europe. They reached out to Silicon Overdrive to assist them in separating their production workload into two segregated workloads, both operating out of Ireland but with one workload servicing customers in South Africa and the other dedicated to servicing their growing international customer base in the Middle East and Europe.
CMS Systems was rapidly expanding and identified the need to separate international regions from their South African workloads.
They reached out to Silicon Overdrive to architect a scalable, highly available and secure solution on the AWS Cloud for their Global customer base in line with their current workloads and architectures on AWS.
They also had a business requirement to be GDPR compliant and ready especially for their potential customers in Europe.
They also split out their workloads into separate accounts in order to segregate workloads between clients, this allowed for easier management of clients in different regions internationally.
Auto Scaling was configured for self-healing which allows for the increased reliability desired by the customer. Should the availability zone or the instance go down the self-healing auto-scaling group will automatically spin up a new instance in the second availability zone to ensure there is no interruption to the end user.
CMS Systems is also able to decide and change, at a moment’s notice, the Amazon EC2 instance type and size. This means that as they onboard clients quickly, they are not held back by the providers’ inability to scale the machine’s capabilities as and when they need it.
Silicon Overdrive implemented the AWS Application Load Balancer which increased scalability, allowed for minimal downtime and automatically accommodated increases in traffic. It also allows for monitoring CMS Systems health of its registered targets, and routes traffic only to the healthy targets as required.
To ensure secure sign-in into their environment and thus increasing their overall security CMS Systems now make use of a Fortigate VPN, this IPSec VPN tunnel ensures that there is no traffic over the public internet when accessing their environment.
By making use of infrastructure as code (Terraform scripting) we were able to quickly and accurately replicate the workload into the new account dedicated to their Middle East and Europe customer base.
Since the migration to the AWS Cloud, CMS Systems has experienced no downtime and attracted more users to their platform. Their application has been able to run on a single instance with the ability to evolve and add more features.
The new solution met the requirement to be scalable so that CMS Systems could scale according to the increase in customers that they were experiencing. The flexibility to increase the instance sizes on the fly was a functionality that they didn’t previously have but now enjoy.
Silicon Overdrive architected a best practice scalable, highly available and secure solution on the AWS Cloud. CMS Systems intends to apply for their ISO27001 and requires their workloads to be compliant and secure.
CMS Systems has not only benefitted from the new infrastructure on AWS but are also enjoying the services that they are currently using. As a result of this, they are actively looking into other AWS services that will benefit their current and future workload.
Francois Kemp, Director and Head of Development at CMS Systems said, “With my experience with Silicon Overdrive helping our South African operations, they were an obvious choice in expanding into Europe and the Middle East.”
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