On MMK of Ilyich rebuild IT infrastructure of the enterprise according to trends

The company To Inca upgraded IT infrastructure iron and steel works of Ilyich solutions Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the press service of integrator reported on April 2, 2013.

Crisis - a basis

The metallurgy has hard times in the conditions of the global economic crisis and a problem of optimization of workflows, increase in efficiency of interaction, acceleration of acceptance of business solutions, security, rise before plant.

Information infrastructure of the enterprise at the time of the project is generally constructed on technologies of Microsoft, however there were no own mail system and services of its support and also the centralization of management necessary for increase in stability and availability of business processes. Thus, the complex project where issues of centralization of management of information infrastructure, deployments of necessary infrastructure components, implementations of standard IT processes moved to the forefront was created.

Solution

Hardware platform at the heart of which bleyd-servers and the selected storage system, are virtualized with the help Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The cluster organization allowed to protect all services connected with direct service of users, at least from single failures of the server hardware.

A number of the important infrastructure components which provided basic services and centralization of management is unrolled including:

• infrastructure services of public key (PKI) for enciphering of the transmitted data;
• Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 for secure access in the Internet and also for the publication and protection of services with the accessibility from the Internet;
• management system for IT resources on a basis Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager;
• corporate portal on the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 platform.

Sergey Fedchun, the deputy finance director on information technologies of MMK of Ilyich, noted: "The services implemented in a project deliverable a mail system and accompanying gave to users of plant the new means of performance improvement of work connected with planning of working time, implementation of the uniform address directory and also ordering and prioritizing of messages in mailboxes".