Cloud4Y implements the failsafe solution for support of cloud services

About the Customer

Began with Cloud4Y (Korp Soft Ltd) the activity in the field of providing cloud services in 2009. Today the company enters in TOP-10 the largest SaaS of suppliers of Russia, and also takes the 3rd place among cloud suppliers of third-party products according to Cnews Analytics.

The company provides the guaranteed basic level of availability of services - 99.9%; For many years the company is a permanent sponsor of the specialized actions (forums, conferences, exhibitions) devoted to cloud computing and business development using cloud computing. In 2013 the company entered in TOP-10 the largest SaaS of suppliers of Russia. Same year the Cloud4Y company took the 3rd place among cloud suppliers of third-party products according to Cnews Analytics.

Quote

For our clients to the most important conditions safe and trouble-free operation of the provided services of IaaS and SaaS is. For us it is extremely important to provide the maximum reliability of work of infrastructure and each of a single node. For this reason we use SDH Netapp and we implement these solutions on all territory of our presence: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, Netherlands. Use of DWH of Netapp increased reliability of corporate data and also, provided an opportunity to store crucial data with a possibility of instant recovery in case of failure of one of data centers.

Task

In work of provider of cloud services it is important to provide the most reliable data storage for clients and internal systems of the company. Multilevel data protection is the compulsory provision of the successful competition in the market of cloud services.

The highest level of criticality for business of the company the financial instruments given clients and own business applications, such as DB 1C: Enterprise 8.2, a DB of CRM, a DB of Oracle, etc. have.

For ensuring high readiness of these systems and services it was necessary to create the trusted network of storage and data transmissions having ample opportunities of integration into the existing infrastructure.

Choosing a Solution

When choosing SDH the ratio price/quality (reliability) became the main criterion, not the last role when choosing was played by world leadership in international market. Having carried out the analysis of the solutions on providing failsafe storage systems presented at the market, the company stopped the choice on the solution MetroCluster of NetApp.

The solution Netapp MetroCluster guarantees operability of infrastructure of data storage both at failure of separate components of a system, and at loss of all DPC. Using functionality of high readiness of pair of controllers, MetroCluster provides the same level of reliability, as the normal systems of Netapp, and due to synchronous mirroring of data and additional links users have an opportunity to place the DWH in two independent data centers. The controllers and mirror copies of data duplicating each other can be in the different DPCs carried on distance up to 200 km. MetroCluster provides transparency of abnormal switchings and guarantees smooth operation of services and applications in case of failure of components of a system.

In addition to it, the systems of Netapp have the richest functionality for data protection from logical errors and damage. Creation of local instant copies of data is Snapshot, an opportunity to recover from them data for fractions of a second, saving a jellied status of applications and systems, help to recover in read minutes operability of the services critical for business.

The making solutions

• FAS32xx MetroCluster
• FlashCache
• NetApp Management Console
• NetApp OnCommand System Manager

Protocols: iSCSI

Applications:

• 1C: Enterprise 8.2
• 1C:CRM
• Oracle
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft SQL
• VMware
• XEN

Result

As a result of implementation of this configuration, specialists of Cloud4Y implemented the disaster-proof solution with a possibility of flexible scaling based on 2 data centers located in Moscow. Today the company has wide network of transfer and data processing in which the main link of solutions of data storage is DWH of Netapp.

Use of DWH of Netapp allowed to reach the new level of smooth operation of services of the company. Even in case of failure of one of data centers services automatically switch to the reserve platform without interruption in service.

The implemented technologies increased the level of protection of corporate data and also, provided an opportunity to create backup copies of crucial data for read seconds and to recover them with any degree of granularity.

The systems of Netapp completely meet all requirements of the company to reliability, performance level at high loads, to a ratio price/quality.