MegaFon made replacement of OS in an IT environment from 26 thousand computers

The MegaFon mobile operator carried out migration of jobs of the company on Windows 7 OS. The project lasted nearly a year and, by calculations of the company, will allow to save 68 million rubles within the next 3 years.

Solution

As the corporate standard for operation of computers in MegaFon company before recent time used the Windows XP operating system with SP3 service pack.

On March 13 the company announced project completion of transfer of all computers at head office and 8 branches and also in Megafon Retail company on the Windows 7 operating system. Total number of the user computers – more than 26 thousand.

Transition to the new platform at head office of MegaFon was performed within 3 months, and in general on all branches of the company migration came to the end 11 months later after start of the project. All works on replacement of OS bylb are carried out by forces of IT specialists of MegaFon.

Opinion

"Today the project of MegaFon company – the most large-scale implementation of Windows 7 in Russia and one of the largest in Europe", – Maria Melkova, the head of department of promotion of operating systems of Microsoft company in Russia noted.

"Already the first tests showed that Windows 7 is what is necessary for our company. It gives the best opportunities in terms of an information access, conveniences of work of users and administrators, reliability augmentations and safety of work with the computer and also the general expense reduction on functioning and administration of the computer park", – the Chief information officer of MegaFon Konstantin Yunov said.

Result

Due to increase in fault tolerance of Windows 7 the number of addresses concerning work of the operating system to service of service was reduced by 40%. At the same time in case of any problems the staff of the center of support can solve them using special tools of access to a remote desktop of Windows thanks to what need for personal presence of specialists of a support service disappears and troubleshooting time is reduced, the press service of MegaFon reported.