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Porsche Informatik relies on Cloudflare to manage traffic for its brand and dealer network , protect its websites from the Internet and automate cloud migration tasks .
a partner like Cloudflare to help us address our challenges , limit the dependencies in our legacy applications , and gain maximum benefits of migrating workloads from our data centres to managed services in the cloud .”
Establishing a partnership – Securing web applications and public access points against DDoS attacks
As Porsche Holdings ’ full-service IT and technical services supplier , Porsche Informatik builds and maintains an international sales and support infrastructure that includes automobile dealership management , vehicle financing , distribution and logistics planning systems .
To achieve a safe , seamless transition to the cloud , Porsche Informatik had a series of very specific goals . These included :
• Securing web assets and customer domains against increasingly sophisticated malicious Internet activity
• Ensuring resilience and high availability in the face of unstable international network conditions to promote and retain customer trust
• Automating domain migration and SSL management processes
• Complying with European and international data localisation regulations and best practices
Porsche Informatik began its Cloudflare journey in 2022 with a series of smaller-scale tests and proofs of concept ( POCs ). However , with the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict , it shifted from evaluating Cloudflare to implementing the Cloudflare WAF and Application services and Advanced DDoS Protection across all of its public websites , endpoints and applications .
“ We experienced a marked increase in malicious traffic from what appeared to be well-financed , professional groups , but Cloudflare absorbed the attacks directed towards us ,” said Zangl . “ We easily secured our public web infrastructure behind the global network ’ s best-inclass DDoS and zero-day exploit protection .”
Porsche Informatik and Cloudflare began their enterprise partnership based on the success of this real-world trial by fire . Porsche Informatik ’ s goal was to leverage the connectivity cloud and Cloudflare ’ s integrated performance , developer , and application services to streamline and simplify its full-scale cloud transformation .
“ With the inventory of legacy applications we have amassed over the last 20 years , Porsche Informatik wanted to ensure that both , our newer modern and our classic client-server applications , were cloud-ready ,” said Thomas Zangl , Head of Cloud and Virtualization service at Porsche Informatik . “ To do that , we needed
Porsche Informatik secures and automates ‘ Cloud Smart ’ migration of over 3,000 dealer websites with Cloudflare
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