In 2014, with growing traffic numbers and increasing popularity, Moneysupermarket Group found that its on-premises data warehouse was limiting its ability to scale quickly. As a result, it shifted to the cloud to mitigate the costs of storage, but still kept hold of its existing on-premises analytics solution. But as its data needs continued to grow, Moneysupermarket Group realized it needed to shift its analytics to the Google Cloud as well for the flexibility, scalability and ease of use it offers.
“With Google’s leadership in the Kubernetes ecosystem, Google Cloud delivers enterprise solutions, like Google Kubernetes Engine, based on their own learnings running services at scale,” says Harvinder Atwal, Head of Data Strategy and Advanced Analytics at Moneysupermarket Group. “This felt like the perfect fit for our data needs, as GKE features advanced networking, security, and operations support to reliably address our needs.”
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