SignaCert customers use Enterprise Trust Serverâ„¢ (ETS) and other SignaCert products for many applications. Here are a few examples.
Clustered Servers
Goal: to prove that clustered devices have identical applications and are patched correctly
Summary:
A large financial services company running multiple trading applications on 40 discrete clusters (pairs of devices) needed to prove that each pair has identical applications and that patches get rolled out appropriately.
Grid Computing
Goal: to assure the grid performs optimally and is always available
Summary:
A large financial institution that buys mortgage "books" needs to maintain a grid of 50 to 10,000 nodes in which all the systems and their installed software need to be identical in order to work together.
Citrix Farm
Goal: to prove that server farm devices do not drift from their desired state
Summary: A large financial services company with a Citrix server farm supporting its operations that needs to ensure all servers match their specified build configuration and do not drift away from that state.
Automated Production Release Verification
Goal: to curb drift in production, verify weekly releases, and prove areas of support responsibility
Summary: A large insurance company has automated weekly releases to a broad range of devices. One company. Issuesof the teams is particularly concerned with gaining visibility into the causes of drift, as well as verifying what is within the team’s scope of responsibility, and what is really the responsibility of other groups in the company.