Accuris uses VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the core of its private cloud to scale its Engineering Intelligence platform for more than 6,000 global companies and over 825,000 users.

Because Accuris delivers its products as SaaS, it needs to respond quickly to changes in customer demand. VCF gives the team a tightly integrated stack—compute, storage, networking, and automation—so they can scale infrastructure up or down in near real time, without complex manual work.

Key ways VCF supports scaling:

• Elastic capacity: Accuris can adjust resources quickly and cost-effectively as usage patterns change.
• Built-in automation: VCF Automation is used extensively to deploy and manage workloads, which helps the team keep pace with customer needs.
• Policy-aligned environments: Any new environment provisioned through VCF is automatically aligned with Accuris’ compliance and security policies, and is ready for production use.

As Ben Tanner, Head of Product Technology at Accuris, puts it, VMware Cloud Foundation is “really the heart of our private cloud,” enabling the company to scale its Engineering Intelligence platform while maintaining performance, security, and compliance.

Accuris has reimagined how its developers access infrastructure by using VMware Cloud Foundation and related services to enable true self-service.

Previously, developers depended on manual configuration and one-off setups. Now, Accuris uses automation within VCF so developers can request resources on demand and immediately receive environments that are:

• Fit for production from day one
• Aligned with all compliance and security policies
• Properly configured for performance

Additional enablers of developer agility include:

• VMware Avi Load Balancer: Automates application delivery and lifecycle management, and integrates tightly with VCF Automation to support both Kubernetes-based and traditional applications.
• vSphere Kubernetes Service: Allows Accuris to run and manage containerized workloads alongside virtual machines, supporting more modern, scalable cloud-native applications in the private cloud.

This approach helps Accuris:

• “Get out of the way” of developers so they can move faster.
• Reduce dependency on public cloud by offering a credible, cost-effective private cloud alternative.
• Give developers the ability to stand up databases and workloads on demand using capabilities like VMware Data Services Manager (planned).

The result is a more flexible, self-service model that supports rapid delivery of new engineering capabilities to customers.

Accuris significantly reshaped its disaster recovery (DR) and availability strategy by adopting VMware Live Recovery cloud and leveraging VCF Technical Adoption Manager Services.

Before Live Recovery cloud, DR was:

• Manual and labor-intensive, with separate tools and plans for different in-house applications.
• Slow and uncertain—recovery from a data center loss could take days or even weeks, with no clear assurance of full recovery.

After implementing VMware Live Recovery cloud, Accuris reports:

• Recovery time reduced from days to hours, or even minutes in some cases.
• A more consistent, cohesive DR approach across applications.
• Confidence that they can identify the timing of a ransomware attack and recover from it, even if data and apps are held hostage.

Ben Tanner notes that Live Recovery cloud has reshaped how the company looks at DR in the private cloud, giving the team assurance that was not possible with traditional methods.

To support this shift, Accuris also relies on:

• VCF Technical Adoption Manager Services for implementation, migration, and best practices.
• VCF Professional Services and Lifecycle Support to help with everything from leaving its former parent company’s data centers to implementing the full VCF stack and improving load balancing practices.

Together, these capabilities allow Accuris to maintain higher application availability for its SaaS offerings and move forward with a single, integrated infrastructure platform for its workloads.