Securing the best multi-cloud strategy to perfect the science of shopping.

In a rapidly evolving retail landscape, dunnhumby is at the forefront of customer data science, empowering businesses to deliver personalised experiences and stay ahead of the competition. From harnessing retail media to creating new revenue streams and enhancing customer loyalty, dunnhumby’s mission aligns with Natilik’s expertise in optimising technology solutions. By integrating advanced cloud infrastructure, AI-powered analytics, and secure, scalable networks, Natilik enables organisations like dunnhumby to unlock insights, protect data, and drive growth.

Discover how our tailored strategies can support your journey towards delivering data-driven retail excellence.

Turning dunnhumby's challenges into opportunities

After discussion with the dunnhumby team, we've identified where Natilik can support in the critical areas shaping dunnhumby's multi-cloud strategy. These include optimising cloud spend through FinOps techniques, maintaining a robust DevOps tech stack, enhancing service availability, building multi-availability architectures and addressing cloud security considerations. Natilik can design, deliver and manage as well as provide technical and DevOps specialists as required.

These pillars highlight the intersection of efficiency, resilience, and security in modern cloud practices that will turn the challenges dunnhumby face into an opportunity.

Ensuring optimised cloud spend with FinOps

Natilik can help dunnhumby move beyond traditional cloud-specific cost-saving measures and elevating above FinOps alone by implementing cloud-agnostic technologies and strategies, such as, optimising Kubernetes workloads and reducing cloud native storage across multiple environments for maximum efficiency. Additionally, by leveraging the HashiCorp platform, Natilik can empower dunnhumby developers with tools to predict cloud spend on proposed deployments and deploy ephemeral environments, ensuring both transparency and cost-effective scaling.

Maintaining the right DevOps tech stack

Natilik’s HashiCorp partnership, combined with its in-depth training and expertise, positions us to help dunnhumby maintain and optimise their DevOps stack with best-in-class tools. By integrating platform engineering practices backed by robust infrastructure and security lifecycle management, Natilik ensures scalable, secure, and efficient DevOps operations tailored to evolving business needs.

Incident Response Strategy

Natilik understand the importance of a holistic and water tight incident response strategy and can support dunnhumby’s with design and deliver of full end-to-end observability through tools like ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, and LogicMonitor. By integrating these with AI Ops capabilities, we provide proactive insights and automated responses, ensuring seamless performance monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents across complex environments.

Removing reliance with multi availability architecture

Natilik can help dunnhumby build a resilient, multi-availability architecture using cloud-agnostic technologies, including a Kubernetes stack made up of best in class technologies such as Spectro Cloud Palette, Isovalent, and Pure Portworx. By integrating Pure CBS and Cohesity for scalable storage and backup solutions, alongside HashiCorp’s lifecycle management tools, Natilik ensures seamless operations, optimised resilience, and portability across diverse cloud environments.

Cloud security challenges

As data security becomes critical, particularly with sensitive customer insights, Natilik can provide advanced cybersecurity solutions and ensure regulatory compliance in all regions where dunnhumby operates. Understanding the challenges that are being faced, Natilik look to support dunnhumby across the following areas

  1. Integration and Automation: ServiceNow and Qualys Integration: Enabling automated synchronization between asset scanning tools and asset management systems for streamlined vulnerability management and remediation activities.
  2. Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Maturity uplift for DLP technologies, focusing on post-data discovery benefits, tuning, and value realisation.
  3. Identity and Access Management (IdAM): Revisiting and expanding the IdAM strategy to strengthen access control and identity verification processes.
  4. Cloud Security Strategy: Developing and implementing a robust cloud security framework, addressing emerging threats and multi-cloud environments.
  5. Security Metrics and Reporting: Defining comprehensive metrics across domains, such as monitoring, patch reporting, and DLP effectiveness, to improve security posture visibility.
  6. Operational Vulnerability Management: Conducting network attack simulations and penetration tests for proactive risk identification and mitigation.
  7. Emerging Technologies and Frameworks: Utilising generative AI for risk assessment and control application. Developing a NIST Controls Maturity Framework for aligning organisational controls.
  8. Sensitive Data Protection: Establishing governance and frameworks for protecting sensitive data in use, particularly PII and commercial data.
  9. Sandbox for Data Science: Creating secure environments for data science experimentation and analysis.
  10. Supplier Assurance: Integrating supplier assurance processes with threat intelligence to mitigate third-party risks effectively.

These challenges reflect the need for a cohesive strategy combining advanced technologies, compliance frameworks, and proactive security practices to safeguard operations.